Suolang Zhuoma knows almost everything there is to know about the Lhoka Administrative Region in southern Tibet. You can, for example, ask her how many lamas or schools there are in this border area that links China with India and Bhutan.
She knows all the answers by heart. But there is one thing this powerful woman does not know - her own birthday.
Ms Zhuoma is powerful because she is the Deputy Communist Party Secretary of the Lhoka Administrative Office Government. In other words, she rules more than 318,000 people - mostly Tibetans - in the Lhoka area. The Administrative Office is a local-level government that administers a large area but is under provincial-level authorities.
'I am one of the first batch of Tibetans who were able to receive education after the 'peaceful liberation',' Ms Zhuoma said, referring to the 1951 political incorporation of Tibet into China.
In May that year, representatives of the Dalai Lama signed the famous 17-Point Agreement in Beijing - later claimed to have been signed under duress.
Eight years later an uprising broke out in Lhasa and the Dalai Lama fled to India.