TGND Beats
Jul 12, 2023
MrKul Gautam is a distinguished diplomat, development professional, public policy advocate, and human rights activist. He is a former deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations with extensive experience in international diplomacy, development cooperation, and humanitarian assistance.
Currently, Gautam serves on the Boards of several national and international organizations dealing with poverty reduction, peacebuilding, inter-faith cooperation, global health, education, and the well-being of women and children, including Nepal Economic Forum, Nepal Public Health Foundation;RESULTS.org; Global Partnership to End Violence against children;andReligions for Peace.
Previously, he served as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Nepal on InternationalAffairs and the Peace Process; asCo-Chairofthe UN Secretary-General’s IndependentAccountability Panel for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent Health; and as Board member of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI);andOXFAM-GB.
Gautam is the author of several books including hisAtmaKathain Nepali (2022), GlobalCitizen from Gulmi: My Journey from the Hills of Nepal to the Halls of United Nations(2018) &Lost in Transition: Rebuilding Nepal from the Maoist Mayhem and MegaEarthquake(2015). A citizen of Nepal, Gautam got his higher education in international relations and development economics at Dartmouth College and Princeton University in the USA.
