Global citizens-Nepalis need to tell the world that things have changed

Aug 14, 2018-Last week, former United Nations Assistant Secretary General Kul Chandra Gautam released his memoir Global Citizen From Gulmi, in which the former diplomat recounts his journey from the hills of Nepal to the halls of United Nations. Here is a story of a Nepali who walked for 12 days to reach Benaras to …

Gautam presents RESULTS Award to US Rep Dave Reichert

Kul Gautam, Chair of RESULTS.org Board presents RESULTS Award to US Rep Dave Reichert (R-WA) for his support for bipartisan anti-poverty legislation in the US Congress July 2018.

Kul Chandra Gautam’s long journey home

Kul Chandra Gautam’s life is an inspirational story of how a school boy in one of the poorest and remotest districts in Nepal went on to become the seniormost Nepali in the United Nations. He achieved this by a lot of hard work, extraordinary perseverance, and never losing sight of his duty to hel

Kul Chandra Gautam announces support for girls’ education programme in Nepal

Aug 9, 2018–UNICEF Nepal welcomes the decision by Kul Chandra Gautam, former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, to donate the proceeds from the sale of his new book, Global Citizen from Gulmi, to support an innovative girls’ educatio

Pelé beyond football

June 24, 2018-As billions of people around the world—including millions of Nepalis—are glued to their televisions watching the 2018 World Cup, I wish to reminisce about the humanitarian dimension of a great football star who is currently not in the pitch. Pelé. Everybody knows Pelé as probably

Cynicism is the obstacle to Nepal’s development

Cynicism is the obstacle to Nepal’s development…” – Kul Chandra Gautam Kul Chandra Gautam, a soft-spoken and modest 53-year-old from Gulmi, is a self-made man. He rose up the ranks with hard work and integrity to become a deputy executive director at UNICEF. Gautam spoke to Nepali Times abou

Children Want Action : An Interview with Kul Gautam

Briefly outline the status of children’s health worldwide, and some of the biggest challenges in meeting the international development goals set for children? In January 2007, the Measles Initiative, of which UNICEF is a partner together with WHO,, announced that deaths due to measles (one of the

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Kul Chandra Gautam is a distinguished diplomat, development professional, and a former senior official of the United Nations. Currently, he serves on the boards of several international and national organizations, charitable foundations and public private partnerships. Previously, he served in senior managerial and leadership positions with the UN in several countries and continents in a career spanning over three decades. As a former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, he has extensive experience in international diplomacy, development cooperation and humanitarian assistance.