Murari Raj Sharma

Murari Raj Sharma is the former ambassador of Nepal to the United Kingdom. He presented his letters of credence to the British Queen on February 12, 2008 at Buckingham Palace. Before taking up the present post, he was Member of the United Nations Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions. Former ambassador of Nepal to the United Nations Sharma was also concurrently accredited to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Venezuela. Winner of several prizes, including the prestigious Mainali Short Story Prize of Nepal, he has co-authored the book entitled Reinventing the United Nations and is also the author of Murari Adhikari's Short Stories.

In 2007, he worked as consultant to Corporate Risk International, a Washington-based company from home, before getting appointed as Nepal's ambassador to the United Kingdom.

In 2006, he chaired a high level task force that reviewed Nepal's foreign policy in the new political context and presented the report with several far-reaching recommendations to the Government of Nepal. The recommendations are being gradually implemented.

He has done considerable work in the area of public administration. Several of his reports on reforms of government entities and public enterprises, which he supervised while working with the Ministry of General Administration, have been implemented. The then His Majesty's Government of Nepal had appointed him coordinator of a working group to review and suggest restructuring of the Nepali bureaucracy in order to meet the basic needs of the Nepali people, and most of the group's recommendations were implemented. He worked as Consultant to many organizations and groups, including the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology soon after it was created and the High Level Administrative Reform Commission after the 1990 political change in Nepal. He also worked with the Pay Commission of Nepal in 1992, whose recommendations were largely implemented.