Former Ambassador of Nepal to the United States

Dr Arjun Kumar Karki is the former Ambassador of Nepal to the United States. Along with a BSc and MSc, he holds a PHD - which he obtained from the University of East Anglia (UK) and completed on the topic of "The Politics of Poverty and Movements from Below in Nepal".

He has since done great work promoting human rights in the country, for which he was awarded the Justice and Peace Award in 2011. He is also the President of Rural Reconstruction Nepal and the International Coordinator of the Least Developed Countries Watch (LDCW).