Biography

Mr. Dadhiram Bhandari

Consul General of Nepal in New York

Consul General Mr. Dadhiram Bhandari is a senior career member (Joint Secretary) of the Nepal Foreign Service. He assumed the position of Consul General of Nepal in New York on 31 May 2025. His consular district covers the nine States in the north-eastern side of the United States of America comprising New York, New Jersy, Connecticut, Rohde Island, Main, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Pennsylvania. His overall mandate encompasses the works relating to the promotion of economic, commercial, cultural, educational and other interests of Nepal and the protection of overall interests of the Nepali national living in this region as well as pursuing a robust economic partnership between Nepal and these states.

Prior to his New York assignment, he worked as a member of the Sagarmatha Sambaad (Everest Dialogue) Secretariat, Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers since January 2025. The Sambaad is a permanent dialogue forum established by the Government of Nepal in 2025 to deliberate on key issues of international, regional and national significance. Prior to that, he served as a member (Under Secretary) of the formation team of the Sagarmatha Sambaad since October 2024.

Previously, he was in London on sabbatical as a Chevening Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, to pursue a postgraduate course on International Studies and Diplomacy from September 2023 to September 2024.  

He served as Director for Administration in the Ministry from April 2021 to September 2023, overseeing human resources planning, capacity building, placement, and resource management. Previously, he was on deputation to the Secretariat of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) as Director, representing Nepal, for three years. From 2016-2018 he served as Under Secretary, Northeast Asia Division and Regional Organization Division at the Ministry. He also served at the office of the Foreign Secretary from 2015-2016. He was the Consul at the Consulate General of Nepal in Lhasa, Tibet, from June 2010 to June 2014. Prior to that, Mr. Bhandari served as Third Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the UN in Geneva from 2006-2009. Mr. Bhandari joined the Nepal Foreign Service in April 2005. He also volunteered as a search, rescue and rehabilitation team member for a few months in the remote part of Nepal following the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Mr. Bhandari holds an MPhil in Public Administration from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. He also did an MA from SOAS, University of London, specializing in International Relations of South Asia and East Asia, as well as Global Security Studies. He received several scholarships and fellowships, including the Chevening Scholarship of the UK Government, the Rising Public Leaders Programme (RPLP) fellowship with Oxford’s Public Service Award (March-April 2023) at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and Diplomatic Fellowship to the South Asian Diplomats on Contemporary Global Issues (August-September 2015), Australian National University, Canberra