# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dawa-dem
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:50:26.918Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dawa-dem"
name: "Dawa Dem"
slug: "dawa-dem"
description: "Dasho Dawa Dem was a Bhutanese bureaucrat. The first woman to join the Bhutanese civil service, she held positions in various government branches, namely the Royal Secretariat, the Thimphu District Administration, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Royal Advisory Council, in a career spanning two decades, from 1965 to 1985. She helped establish the National Women's Association of Bhutan in 1981, and was appointed its secretary in 1985. She retired in 2009 and died in 2018."
tagline: "Bhutanese bureaucrat"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Dasho_Dawa_Dem.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1944-05-16"
deathDate: "2018-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.21
  momentum:             3.804347826086957
  historical:           5.937905333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "達娃·德姆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "দাওয়া ডেম"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dawa Dem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "தாவா தெம்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BC"
    title: "Дава Дем"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%88_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%85"
    title: "داشو دوا دیم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%81%94%E5%A8%83%C2%B7%E5%BE%B7%E5%A7%86"
    title: "達娃·德姆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99542695"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump