Dr. Arjun Kumar Karki is the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Government of Nepal to the United States of America. Dr. Karki has also worked as an Ambassador to Columbia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Guyana. Dr. Karki is now the Executive President of Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN) and Global Coordinator of LDC Watch. Dr. Karki has more than 20 years of experience in international relations, international diplomacy, international negotiations, conflict mediation, peace-building as well as development cooperation at the local, national, regional, and global levels. He has undertaken the International Diplomacy and Leadership Training from Harvard Law School, USA; the International Diplomacy and Diplomatic Protocol Management Training from EUROPROTOCOL, UK and the International Negotiations: Practical Skills and Techniques Training Course from The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).Prior to his incumbent role, Dr Karki had been holding the position of International Co-ordinator of LDC Watch which is legally based in Brussels, Belgium with the international headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal. He was co-ordinating the organisation and mobilisation of the LDC Watch civil society policy advocacy and campaigns in the 48 UN-defined least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa, Caribbean, and the Asia-Pacific.