Yuba Raj Khatiwada

Yuba Raj Khatiwada is a Nepali politician and economist who served as the Minister of Finance and Minister for Information and Communications until September 2020. As of October 2020, he has been recommended by the cabinet of KP Sharma Oli as the ambassador of Nepal to the United States, and the non-residential ambassador to Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. Besides these countries, as the residential ambassador of Nepal to the US, he is also entitled to look after the affairs related to the World Bank, IMF, and the World Bank Group (IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA and ICSID).[1] He was also nominated as the special economic advisor to the Prime Minister of Nepal, with minister-level authority, after his dismissal from the federal cabinet.

Yuba Raj Khatiwada
युबराज खतिवडा
Minister of Finance
In office
26 February 2018 – 4 September 2020[lower-alpha 1]
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Oli
Preceded byGyanendra Bahadur Karki
Succeeded byBishnu Prasad Paudel
Minister for Information and Communications
In office
20 February 2020 – 4 September 2020[lower-alpha 1]
PresidentBidya Devi Bhandari
Prime MinisterKhadga Prasad Oli
Preceded byGokul Prasad Baskota
Succeeded byParbat Gurung
Nominated Member of the National Assembly
In office
10 March 2018 – 3 March 2020
Preceded byAssembly established
Succeeded byBam Dev Gautam
15th Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank
In office
22 March 2010 – 19 March 2015
Preceded byDeependra Bahadur Kshetry
Succeeded byChiranjivi Nepal
Vice chairman of the National Planning Commission
In office
November 2015 – August 2016
Preceded byDr Govinda Pokharel
Succeeded byMin Bahadur Shrestha
In office
June 2009 – March 2010
Preceded byDr Guna Nidhi Sharma
Succeeded byJagadish Chandra Pokharel
Personal details
Born (1956-08-14) 14 August 1956
Taplejung
NationalityNepali
Political partyNepal Communist Party (NCP)
ResidenceKathmandu, Nepal
Alma materTribhuvan University
University of Delhi (PhD)
ProfessionPolitician, Economist
CabinetSecond Oli cabinet

Career

Khatiwada served as a nominated member of National Assembly from 2018 to 2020. He previously served two tenures as the vice chairman of the National Planning Commission and as the 15th Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank, the central bank of Nepal.[2][3] He also served as the spokesperson of the Government of Nepal after the resignation of Gokul Prasad Baskota. He also served as the senior economist in the regional centre of UNDP for Asia and the Pacific for the United Nations from 2006 to 2009. He had also been appointed member of the National Planning Commission from 2002 to 2005.

Khatiwada was the Head of the Economic Research Department of the Nepal Rastra Bank from 1999 to 2002, a postgraduate teacher at Tribhuvan University in 1982, and intermittently, a visiting faculty member at Tribhuvan University and Kathmandu University from 1992 to 2001. He received his Master’s degrees in Economics and Public Administration from Tribhuvan University in 1981 and 1984 respectively, and a PhD in Monetary Economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi in 1991.

Khatiwada has picked up national awards such as the Suprabal Gorkha Dakshin Bahu (2001), Sukirtimaya Rastra Deep (2013) and Prasiddha Prabal Jana Sewa Shree (2016) conferred by the President of Nepal for his outstanding contribution to the development of Nepal in his different capacities.

References
  1. "Nepali Missions with Concurrent Accreditation - Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nepal MOFA". mofa.gov.np. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  2. "Nepal Rastra Bank - Central Bank of Nepal". www.nrb.org.np.
  3. "Yuba Raj Khatiwada". Bloomberg.
  1. Khatiwada was Minister of Finance from 26 February 2018 and Minister for Information and Communications from 20 February 2020 but had to resign from both ministerial posts on 3 March 2020 when his two-year term in the National Assembly ended, however he was reappointed the next day.
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