JigmeKhesarNamgyelWangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, born 21 February 1980) is the son of JigmeSingyeWangchuck and the 5th and current reigning Dragon King (DrukGyalpo) of the Kingdom of Bhutan. He became king on 14 December 2006 being crowned on 6 November 2008. He was the world's youngest head of state until 2011, surpassed by Kim Jong-un of North Korea. A public coronation ceremony was held on 6 November 2008, an auspicious year that marked 100 years of Monarchy in Bhutan.

Early life
Khesar (pronounced Gesar) is the eldest son of the fourth Dragon King of Bhutan, JigmeSingyeWangchuck, and his third wife, Queen (Ashi) TsheringYangdon. He has a younger sister, Princess DechenYangzom, and brother, Prince JigmeDorji, as well as four half-sisters and three half-brothers. After completing his higher secondary studies at Yangchenphu Higher Secondary School, Bhutan, Khesar studied abroad at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, Cushing Academy and Wheaton College in Massachusetts, United States, before graduating from Magdalen College, University of Oxford, where he completed the Foreign Service Programme and International Relations.