A cabinet meeting held on Monday recommended ambassadors to 18 nineteen countries.
In a rare move, the cabinet meeting approved a large number of ambassadorial appointments to 18 countries. These positions were filled through a combination of career diplomats and political appointees, as recommended by the ruling coalition.
Among those recommended is Dr. Shankar Sharma who has been recommended for southern neighbor India yet again while Dr Krishna Prasad Oli has been recommended for China.
Similarly, former Chief Secretary Lok Darshan Regmi has been recommended for America and former Secretary Chandra Ghimire has been recommended for the United Kingdom. While Regmi and Ghimire are familiar personalities, people have curiosity about Krishna Prasad.
Krishna Prasad is from Jhapa, a relative of Prime Minister KP Oli. He had been a member of the National Planning Commission during the previous tenure of Oli as the Prime Minister in 2017. Before stepping down as the Prime Minister, he had appointed Dr. Krishna Prasad as the chairman of the National Trust for Nature Conservation Council.
Dr. Oli is an expert in the forest and environment sector. He has an experience of 35 to 40 years in the development and environment sector, especially in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region.
Since 2016, Oli has been a visiting professor of International Environmental Law at Sichuan University in China. Along with Sichuan, he is an assistant professor at Xizang University (Tibet) in China and a visiting professor at Kathmandu School of Law.
He worked for nine years as a Senior Ecosystems Management Specialist at ICIMOD. He obtained his PhD from Tribhuvan University in the field of land use, dynamics of change, and sustainability in hilly areas and his Masters from the UK.
In the next few weeks, Dr. Krishna Prasad Oli will take over the ambassadorial duties as the successor of Bishnu Pukar Shrestha at the Nepali Embassy in Beijing.
