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Yeshey Zimba

Politician

Yeshey Zimba is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba · Yeshey Zimba · Єшей Зімба · Ешей Зимба · یشی زیمبا · 3 more...				[sources]
Alias	Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba · Zimba, Lyonpo Yeshey · Єшей Зімба · Зимба, Ешей · イェシュイ・ジンバ · 1 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1950-10-10 · 1952-10-10				[sources]
Death date	2024-09-16				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Bhutan				[sources]
Country	Bhutan				[sources]
Citizenship	Bhutan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
E-Mail	yzimba@nab.gov.bt				[sources]
Political association	Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q864561				[sources]
Position	National Assembly (member, 2013-) · Prime Minister of Bhutan (2000-2001) · Prime Minister of Bhutan (2004-2005)				[sources]
Education	St. Joseph's School, Darjeeling · University of North Bengal · University of Wisconsin–Madison				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Prime Minister of Bhutan

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Prime Minister of Bhutan	2004-08-20	2005-09-04
Member of the National Assembly	-	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,600

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata334,584

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,278

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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