Ram Chandra Poudel

His Excellency The Right Honourable Ram Chandra Paudel
रामचन्द्र पौडेल
Paudel in 2023
3rd President of Nepal
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 March 2023
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Vice President	Nanda Kishor Pun Ram Sahaya Yadav
Deputy Prime Ministers	Purna Bahadur Khadka Narayan Kaji Shrestha
Preceded by	Bidya Devi Bhandari
Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office 18 December 1994 – 23 March 1999
Monarch	King Birendra
Deputy	Ram Vilas Yadav Lila Shrestha Subba
Preceded by	Daman Nath Dhungana
Ministerial positions Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs In office 1999–2002 Monarch King Gyanendra Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai Girija Prasad Koirala Sher Bahadur Deuba Minister for Peace and Reconstruction In office 2007–2008 President Girija Prasad Koirala (Acting) Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala Minister for Local Development and Agriculture In office 1991–1994 Monarch King Birendra Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
Parliamentary offices Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha In office 22 December 2022 – 9 March 2023 Preceded by Krishna Kumar Shrestha Succeeded by Swarnim Wagle Constituency Tanahun 1 In office October 1994 – May 2002 Preceded by Govinda Raj Joshi Succeeded by Himself (as member of Constituent Assembly) Constituency Tanahun 2 In office May 1991 – August 1994 Preceded by Constituency established Succeeded by Govinda Raj Joshi Constituency Tanahun 1 Member of the Constituent Assembly / Legislature Parliament In office 28 May 2008 – 14 October 2017 Preceded by Himself (as member of Pratinidhi Sabha) Succeeded by Kedar Sigdel (as member of Pratinidhi Sabha) Constituency Tanahun 2
Vice President of the Nepali Congress
In office 2008–2016
Preceded by	Prakash Man Singh Gopal Man Shrestha
Succeeded by	Bimalendra Nidhi
Personal details
Born	(1944-10-06) 6 October 1944 (age 79) Tanahun, Nepal
Nationality	Nepali
Political party	Independent (since 2023)
Other political affiliations	Nepali Congress (until 2023)
Spouse	Savita Poudel
Children	5
Parent(s)	Rishima (mother, deceased) Durga Prasad (father, deceased)
Occupation	Politician

Ram Chandra Paudel (Nepali: रामचन्द्र पौडेल; born 6 October 1944) is a Nepalese politician serving as the third president of Nepal, since 13 March 2023.^[1][2]

A former senior leader of the Nepali Congress, Paudel previously served as the speaker of the House of Representatives from 1994 to 1999, and was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs from 1999 to 2002. First elected to parliament in 1991, he served in numerous other ministerial positions and was the Leader of Opposition from 2009 to 2013, as the parliamentary party leader of the Nepali Congress.^[3]