Ram Chandra Poudel

**Ram Chandra Poudel** (Nepali: राम चन्द्र पौडेल; born 15 October 1944) is a Nepali politician who was the third president of Nepal from March 2023 to September 2025. He used to be a senior leader of the Nepali Congress. Poudel became president on 9 March 2023.

In September 2025, it was reported that Paudel was going to resign as president as a result of the 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests. However it was later confirmed that Poudel did not plan to resign. His official residence as president, the Rastrapati Bhawan, was also set on fire during the protests.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific prefix**: His Excellency
The Right Honourable
- **name**: Ram Chandra Poudel
- **native name**: रामचन्द्र पौडेल
- **image**: President Ram Chandra Poudel, Official portrait (January 2024).jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2024
- **office**: 3rd President of Nepal
- **term start**: 13 March 2023
- **vicepresident**: Nanda Kishor Pun
Ram Sahaya Yadav
- **primeminister**: Pushpa Kamal Dahal
KP Sharma Oli
Sushila Karki
- **predecessor**: Bidya Devi Bhandari
- **office1**: Speaker of the House of Representatives (Nepal), House of Representatives
- **termstart1**: 18 December 1994
- **termend1**: 23 March 1999
- **deputy1**: Ram Vilas Yadav
Lila Shrestha Subba
- **monarch1**: Birendra of Nepal, Birendra
- **predecessor1**: Daman Nath Dhungana
- **successor1**: Taranath Ranabhat
- **office2**: Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal, Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Home Affairs (Nepal), Minister for Home Affairs
- **termstart2**: 1999
- **termend2**: 2002
- **primeminister2**: Krishna Prasad Bhattarai
Girija Prasad Koirala
Sher Bahadur Deuba
- **monarch2**: Gyanendra of Nepal, Gyanendra
- **office3**: Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction (Nepal), Minister for Peace and Reconstruction
- **termstart3**: 2007
- **termend3**: 2008
- **primeminister3**: Girija Prasad Koirala
- **office4**: Minister for Local Development and Agriculture
- **termstart4**: 1991
- **termend4**: 1994
- **monarch4**: Birendra of Nepal, Birendra
- **primeminister4**: Girija Prasad Koirala
- **office5**: Member of Parliament, House of Representatives (Nepal), Pratinidhi Sabha
- **termstart5**: 22 December 2022
- **termend5**: 9 March 2023
- **constituency5**: Tanahun 1 (constituency), Tanahun 1
- **predecessor5**: Krishna Kumar Shrestha
- **successor5**: 2023 Tanahun–1 by-election, TBD
- **termstart6**: October 1994
- **termend6**: May 2002
- **predecessor6**: Govinda Raj Joshi
- **successor6**: Himself
- **constituency6**: Tanahun 2 (constituency), Tanahun 2
- **termstart7**: May 1991
- **termend7**: August 1994
- **predecessor7**: _Constituency established_
- **successor7**: Govinda Raj Joshi
- **constituency7**: Tanahun 1 (constituency), Tanahun 1
- **office8**: Member of the 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly, Constituent Assembly / 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly, Legislature Parliament
- **termstart8**: 28 May 2008
- **termend8**: 14 October 2017
- **predecessor8**: Himself
- **successor8**: Kedar Sigdel
- **constituency8**: Tanahun 2 (constituency), Tanahun 2
- **office9**: Vice President of the Nepali Congress
- **termstart9**: 2008
- **termend9**: 2016
- **predecessor9**: Prakash Man Singh
Gopal Man Shrestha
- **successor9**: Bimalendra Nidhi
- **birth place**: Tanahun, Kingdom of Nepal, Nepal
- **party**: Independent politician, Independent
- **otherparty**: Nepali Congress
- **nationality**: Nepalis, Nepali
- **spouse**: Sabita Poudel
- **children**: 5
- **parents**: Rishima
Durga Prasad
- **occupation**: Politician