Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa (born 7 September 1943 in Lhasa) is a Tibetan banker, activist, writer and poet, one of the first to write in English, composing poems in this language in 1967.
Son of the Tibetan Finance Minister Tsepon W.
D.
Shakabpa, he left Tibet in 1950 to study at St.
Joseph's School, Darjeeling in India before working for the Tibetan government in exile and settle in the United States and was naturalized American.