Ram Chandra Poudel

His Excellency
The Right Honourable
Ram Chandra Poudel
His Excellency; The Right Honourable Ram Chandra Poudel
रामचन्द्र पौडेल
	Poudel in 2024
3rd President of Nepal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 13 March 2023
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal; Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Vice President	Nanda Kishor Pun; Ram Sahaya Yadav
Preceded by	Bidya Devi Bhandari
Leader of the Opposition
	In office; 6 February 2011 – 14 March 2013
President	Ram Baran Yadav
Prime Minister	Jhala Nath Khanal; Baburam Bhattarai
Preceded by	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Succeeded by	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
3rd Speaker of the House of Representatives
	In office; 18 December 1994 – 23 March 1999
Monarch	Birendra
Deputy	Ram Vilas Yadav; Lila Shrestha Subba; Bhojraj Joshi
Preceded by	Daman Nath Dhungana
Succeeded by	Tara Nath Ranabhat
Monarch	In office; 1999–2002
Ministerial positions
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs
	In office; 1999–2002
Monarch	Gyanendra
Prime Minister	Krishna Prasad Bhattarai; Girija Prasad Koirala; Sher Bahadur Deuba
Minister for Peace and Reconstruction
	In office; 2007–2008
President	Girija Prasad Koirala (Acting)
Prime Minister	Girija Prasad Koirala
Minister for Local Development and Agriculture
	In office; 1991–1994
Monarch	Birendra
Prime Minister	Girija Prasad Koirala
Preceded by	In office; 22 December 2022 – 9 March 2023
Parliamentary offices
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
	In office; 22 December 2022 – 9 March 2023
Preceded by	Krishna Kumar Shrestha
Succeeded by	Swarnim Wagle
Constituency	Tanahun 1
	In office; October 1994 – May 2002
Preceded by	Govinda Raj Joshi
Succeeded by	Himself (as member of Constituent Assembly)
Constituency	Tanahun 2
	In office; May 1991 – August 1994
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Govinda Raj Joshi
Constituency	Tanahun 1
Member of the Constituent Assembly / Legislature Parliament
	In office; 28 May 2008 – 14 October 2017
Preceded by	Himself (as member of Pratinidhi Sabha)
Succeeded by	Kedar Sigdel (as member of Pratinidhi Sabha)
Constituency	Tanahun 2
Preceded by	In office; 2008–2016
Senior party positions
Vice President of the Nepali Congress
	In office; 2008–2016
Preceded by	Prakash Man Singh; Gopal Man Shrestha
Succeeded by	Bimalendra Nidhi
Personal details
Born	6 October 1944; Tanahun, Kingdom of Nepal
Political party	Independent (since 2023)
Other political; affiliations	Nepali Congress (until 2023)
Spouse	Savita Poudel
Children	5

Ram Chandra Paudel (Nepali: रामचन्द्र पौडेल; born 6 October 1944) is a Nepalese politician who has been the third and current president of Nepal since 2023.

A former senior leader of the Nepali Congress, Paudel previously served as the speaker of the House of Representatives from 1994 to 1999, and was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs from 1999 to 2002. First elected to parliament in 1991, he served in numerous other ministerial positions and was the Leader of the Opposition from 2011 to 2013, as the parliamentary party leader of the Nepali Congress.