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Françoise Pommaret
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Associate Professor Françoise Pommaret at her home in Thimphu, Bhutan, March 2023.
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| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Sorbonne Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales |
| Occupation | Tibetologist, Anthropologist, Author, Professor |
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| Fields | Tibetan studies, Anthropology, International relations |
| Institutions | Royal University of Bhutan |
Françoise Pommaret (born 1954) is a French ethno-historian and Tibetologist.
Early life and education
Pommaret grew up in the Congo. She received her Master of Arts in the history of art and archeology from the Sorbonne University and completed her studies in Tibetan at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientalest (INALCO). Her doctoral thesis on "People who come back from the netherland in the Tibetan cultural areas" received the prix Delalande-Guérineau from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Career
She holds the position of Director of Research Emeritus at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. Her work focuses on cultural anthropology in Bhutan and she has published extensively on different aspects of Bhutanese culture.
She has worked in Bhutan since 1981 and with the Bhutan Tourism Corporation between 1981 and 1986, after which she participated in educational and cultural projects in Bhutan. She has been a consultant for UNESCO as well as guest-curator for exhibitions. She lectures around the world on aspects of Bhutanese history and culture.
Pommaret works as Associate Professor and adviser to the College of Language and Culture Studies (CLCS), Royal University of Bhutan and worked as scientific advisor to the Bhutan Cultural Atlas.
Pommaret is also honorary consul of France in Bhutan and the president of the association of Amis du Bhoutan (friends of Bhutan, founded 1987).
Awards and recognitions
For her contribution to cultural research in Bhutan, she is the recipient of the French award Légion d'honneur (2015) and the National Order of Merit (Bhutan), first class (Gold) in 2017.
