Kinley Yangdon

Kinley Yangdon is Head of the Department of Management and Head of the Entrepreneurship and Executive Training Center at Gedu College of Business Studies, Royal University of Bhutan, where she has been a Lecturer since 2011. She has led curriculum development, supervised research and run initiatives promoting innovation and entrepreneurship among students and local communities.

She holds an MBA in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, India, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education from Samtse College of Education. She completed the University Teaching Programme at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam under the Nuffic-funded TMT Programme.

A certified CEFE International Trainer, she has conducted workshops and training programmes across Bhutan and mentors entrepreneurs with the Bhutan Innovation and Technology Center at Thimphu TechPark. She is a visiting faculty member at FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria, where she teaches Lean Startup.

She leads a Norway Government-supported project on inclusive business models for solar food drying in the Himalayan region. Her research covers women’s entrepreneurship, women in leadership and knowledge management, and she has co-authored Class 11 and 12 Business and Entrepreneurship textbooks for the Royal Education Council, Bhutan.