Mr. Dinesh Ghimire

Dinesh Kumar Ghimire is the Secretary of the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Government of Nepal since December 2018. He has been associated with the power sector of Nepal for more than two and half decades. Currently, he is the chairperson of three renowned companies namely Vidyut Utpadan company, Limited (VUCL), Rashtriya Prasharan Grid Company Limited (RPGCL), and the Hydroelectricity Investment and Development Company Limited (HIDCL) all under the Ministry of Energy Water Resources and Irrigation. He is also on the Board of Directors of Nepal Electricity Authority. He has been associated with the power sector of Nepal for more than three decades.

During his service in various government organizations, he was involved in planning, budgeting, monitoring, and evaluation of power projects, Project Development Agreement negotiation, private sector promotion, promoting renewable energy projects, etc. Mr. Ghimire has led many bilateral negotiations and mechanism meetings regarding water and power issues with neighboring countries like India, China, and Bangladesh. He also served as a Governing Board Member from Nepal in SAARC Energy Center and has been engaged in Regional and Sub-regional forum like South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC), South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) and BBIN which is an agreement between four countries i.e. Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal that devises and implements ideas related to resource management, transportation, etc . Apart from him full time service in the Government, Mr. Ghimire has teaching experience in various engineering college such as Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk, Kathmandu Engineering College, Advanced College of Engineering and Management, Kantipur City College, and Khwopa College of Engineering both at Masters and Bachelor levels.

Mr. Ghimire has received his M. Tech. in Hydro Electric System in Engineering and Management from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, and his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Rajasthan University, Jaipur India.