Institute alumnus Deepak Dhital (PED ’93) is Nepal’s new Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva.

Prior to his appointment, Deepak Dhital was Chief of the United Nations, International Organisations and International Law Division at Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a job he had held since 2012. He was previously Nepal’s Deputy Chief of Mission in Brussels, Belgium from 2008 to 2011, and from 2006 to 2008, Director of the SAARC (South Asia and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

A career diplomat, Deepak Dhital served as chargé d’affaires at the Nepalese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 2003 to 2005, and as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand, from 2001 to 2003. He entered the Nepalese Diplomatic Service in 1999 and before that was at the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation, in charge of international publicity and promotion of Nepal’s tourism, and a journalist. Mr. Dhital has also represented Nepal at a large number of regional and multilateral conferences.