Ram Chandra Poudel

His Excellency The Right Honourable Ram Chandra Paudel
रामचन्द्र पौडेल
Official portrait, 2024
3rd President of Nepal
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 March 2023
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Vice President	Nanda Kishor Pun Ram Sahaya Yadav
Deputy	Narayan Kaji Shrestha Purna Bahadur Khadka Raghubir Mahaseth Rabi Lamichhane Bishnu Prasad Paudel Prakash Man Singh
Preceded by	Bidya Devi Bhandari
Leader of the Opposition
In office 6 February 2011 – 14 March 2013
President	Ram Baran Yadav
Prime Minister	Jhala Nath Khanal Baburam Bhattarai
Preceded by	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Succeeded by	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
3rd Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office 18 December 1994 – 23 March 1999
Monarch	Birendra
Deputy	Ram Vilas Yadav Lila Shrestha Subba Bhojraj Joshi
Preceded by	Daman Nath Dhungana
Succeeded by	Tara Nath Ranabhat
Ministerial positions Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs In office 1999–2002 Monarch 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 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
Senior party positions 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 80) Tanahun, Kingdom of Nepal
Political party	Independent (since 2023)
Other political affiliations	Nepali Congress (until 2023)
Spouse	Savita Poudel
Children	5

Ram Chandra Paudel (Nepali: रामचन्द्र पौडेल; born 6 October 1944) is a Nepalese politician who has been the third and current president of Nepal since 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 the Opposition from 2011 to 2013, as the parliamentary party leader of the Nepali Congress.^[3]