NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF NEPAL PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Shanker Das Bairagi, the new Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Bairagi held the post of Deputy Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations in New York since November 2009. In March 2007, Mr. Bairagi was posted to Australia, where he established the Embassy of Nepal in Canberra, and served as Deputy Chief of Mission until 2009. Between 2000 and 2004, Mr. Bairagi served as Counsellor /Minister and Counsellor Deputy Chief of Mission to the Benelux countries at the Mission of Nepal to the European Union in Brussels. He served as Second and First Secretary at the Embassy of Nepal in New Delhi from 1995 to 1998.

A career diplomat, Mr. Bairagi has held a range of positions within the Nepalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kathmandu. He started his career with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990, working on the India-Bhutan Desk. That was followed by a desk officer position in the United Nations and International Law Division of the Ministry. From 1998 to 2000, he served as Under-Secretary at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Division. He worked as Under-Secretary at the India and Bhutan Desk from 2004 to 2005, Under-Secretary at the Office of the Foreign Minister from 2005 to 2006, and Under-Secretary at the Europe-America Division from 2006 to 2007.

Mr. Bairagi completed a law degree at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal (1989), followed by a Masters Degree in Political Science at the same institution (1995). He read European Integration and Development at the University of Brussels, leaving with a second Masters Degree in 2002. Mr. Bairagi was also a student at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, on the Diplomatic Studies programme, from 1992 to 1993.

Mr. Bairagi was born on 26 January 1966 in Nepal and is married.


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