Honorific-Prefix: | Honourable |
Dr. Narayan Khadka | |
Native Name: | डा. नारायण खड्का |
Office1: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Term Start1: | 22 September 2021 |
Term End1: | 26 December 2022 |
President1: | Bidhya Devi Bhandari |
Primeminister1: | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Predecessor1: | Pradeep Kumar Gyawali |
Successor1: | Bimala Rai Paudyal |
Office2: | 1st Minister of Urban Development of Nepal |
Term Start2: | 25 February 2014 |
Term End2: | 10 October 2015 |
Vicepresident2: | Paramananda Jha |
President2: | Ram Baran Yadav |
Primeminister2: | Sushil Koirala |
Predecessor2: | established created |
Successor2: | Arjun Narasingha K.C. |
Constituency3: | Udayapur 1 |
Term Start3: | 4 March 2018 |
Office4: | Member of Constituent Assembly |
Term Start4: | 28 May 2008 |
Term End4: | 14 October 2017 |
Predecessor4: | Suresh Kumar Rai |
Birth Date: | 20 March 1949 |
Birth Place: | Dingla, Nepal |
Nationality: | Nepali |
Party: | Nepali Congress |
Spouse: | Dr. Isabella C. Bassignana Khadka |
Education: | [1] |
Narayan Khadka is a member of Nepali Congress who has served as the Foreign minister of Nepal since 2021. He has worked previously as Minister of Urban Development under Sushil Koirala-led government.[2] [3]
He was a member of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly. He won the Udayapur - 1 seat in 2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election from the Nepali Congress.[4] [5] [6] He was appointed as Foreign Minister by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on September 22, 2021.
Narayan Khadka was born on 20 March 1949 in Bhojpur to Chitra Bahadur Khadka and Dharma Kumari Khadka. He has done his Ph.D. in Economics from Pune, India.
He joined politics in 1967. He had served as the vice-chairman of National Planning Commission of Nepal.
He was also the member of 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly where he was a member of the National Interest Preservation Committee.