M R Josse

In Past:

•  Columnist, The Kathmandu Post, daily, Kathmandu
• Contributor, The Rising Nepal, daily, Kathmandu; and The Sunday Despatch, weekly, Kathmandu.
• Columnist, The Everest Herald, daily, Kathmandu
• Contributing Editor, Economic and Political Monthly, Kathmandu
• Contributing Editor, Dialogue, weekly, Dhaka
• Correspondent, South Asian monthly, Hong Kong
• Correspondent, Business and Political Observer, daily, Delhi/Bombay
• Media Consultant, Institute for Integrated Development Studies, Kathmandu
• Founder and Consultant Editor, The Independent, weekly, Kathmandu; and Editor-in-Chief, The Rising Nepal, daily, Kathmandu

Past Highlights:

Between August 1985-February 1990 served as Nepal’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as Alternative Representative to UN Security Council, 1988-89
Member, Nepalese delegation to 52nd. UN General Assembly, 1997, Member, Board of Directors, National News Agency, Kathmandu; Member, Board of Directors, Gorkhapatra Sansthan, Kathmandu and Member, Nepal Press Council.

Academic Background:

• Senior Cambridge certificate 1956; Bachelor of Science degree, Calcutta University, 1960 and Masters of Arts degree in international relations Jadavpur University, Calcutta, 1963.
• Training and Seminars: Newspaper management course at Berlin Institute of Journalism, West Berlin, 1972
• UN Editors’ Roundtable, New York, 1981; Asian Mass Communication Leaders’ Roundtable, Bangkok, 1982
• World Bank/UNITAR seminar on international development issues, Washington, D.C. 1987
• Bridgeport seminar for UN diplomats, Bridgeport University, CT, 1987;
• New York University seminar for UN diplomats, NY, 1988

Special Assignments:

• Covered King Birendra’s state and other visits to China (1973); Tibet/Sichuan (1976); USSR (1976); Sri Lanka (1985); United Kingdom (1980); Paris LDC Conference (1981); Gansu Province, China (1982); Spain (1983) and the United States (1983). Also covered King Jigme Singye Wangchuck’s coronation in Thimphu (1974) and led a press delegation to Tibet (1995).
• Member, entourage, Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikari’s official visit to India (1995) and member, entourage, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s visit to China (1996).
• Interview of VVIPS: King Birendra; President Gayoom of the Maldives; the Dalai Lama; Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh; President Zia-ul-Haq; Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan; and Prime Minister Sardar Qayyum Khan of Azad Kashmir.

Travel:

Extensive travel through Asia, Western Europe and the United States as a member of press delegation, on reporting and interview assignments, for seminars and sponsored observation tours. Also visited a number of African and Latin American countries.

• Personal: Born in Kathmandu on October 29, 1941. With a wife, a son and two daughters.
• Address: Cha 2/406, Boudha Mahankal, Kathmandu-1, Nepal.
• Phone: 977-1-471098
• Email: mrjosse@gmail.com
• Updated on 22 October, 2019