Mr. Nirmal Raj Kafle is Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in- charge of the Europe and the Americas Division. Prior to this appointment in August 2019, Mr. Kafle served as Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations in New York from July 2016. While in the Mission, he chaired the Committee on Conferences, a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly, for the year 2018. He was also elected Vice-Chair of the Executive Board of UNICEF in the same year. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Management from the University of Melbourne, Australia.