Kinley Pelden

Creative Executive of Yiga Chocolate

Kinley Pelden is Creative Executive of Yiga Chocolate, the first chocolate firm in Bhutan started with comprehensive support of funding and mentoring from Loden Foundation. Prior to entrepreneurship, she served in the Ministry of Agriculture for 17 years as lecturer and as a development and regulatory official. Kinley did her undergraduate studies in Agriculture from the Philippines and graduate studies in quantitative genetics and breeding from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Wageningen University in the Netherlands.