Anthropologist by training ((PhD, 2016, Australian National University), researcher by profession, bureaucrat by function, and poet at heart, Dorji Penjore currently heads of the Research Division of the Centre for Bhutan Studies & Gross National Happiness.

Dorji Penjore’s research specialty is in the areas of Bhutan (economic) anthropology, Bhutan oral literature (folklore), oral interviews, village ethnography, and social surveys. He has an experience in long-term anthropological fieldwork, home ethnography, Bhutanese decentralization, project development and management, and Gross National Happiness.