Bidya Devi Bhandari

Bidya Devi Bhandari
Bidya Devi Bhandari
विद्यादेवी भण्डारी
	Bhandari in UN
2nd President of Nepal
	In office; 29 October 2015 – 13 March 2023
Prime Minister	KP Sharma Oli; Sher Bahadur Deuba; Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Vice President	Parmanand Jha; Nanda Kishor Pun
Deputy Prime Ministers	See list Chandra Prakash Mainali; Chitra Bahadur KC; Bhim Bahadur Rawal; Bimalendra Nidhi; Krishna Bahadur Mahara; Bijay Kumar Gachhadar; Gopal Man Shrestha; Krishna Bahadur Mahara; Kamal Thapa; Ishwor Pokharel; Upendra Yadav; Bishnu Prasad Paudel; Raghubir Mahaseth; Rajendra Mahato; Narayan Kaji Shrestha; Bishnu Prasad Paudel; Rabi Lamichhane; ;
Preceded by	Ram Baran Yadav
Succeeded by	Ram Chandra Poudel
Minister of Defence
	In office; 25 May 2009 – 6 February 2011
President	Ram Baran Yadav
Prime Minister	Madhav Kumar Nepal
Preceded by	Ram Bahadur Thapa
Succeeded by	Bijay Kumar Gachhadar
Minister for Environment and Population
	In office; 25 March 1997 – 7 October 1997
Monarch	King Birendra
Prime Minister	Lokendra Bahadur Chand
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; November 1994 – April 2008
Preceded by	Daman Nath Dhungana
Succeeded by	Jhakku Prasad Subedi
Constituency	Kathmandu–2
	In office; January 1994 – August 1994
Preceded by	Madan Bhandari
Succeeded by	Man Mohan Adhikari
Constituency	Kathmandu–1
Member of the Constituent Assembly / Legislature Parliament
	In office; 28 May 2008 – 28 October 2015
Constituency	Party list
Personal details
Born	Bidya Pandey; 19 June 1961; Mane Bhanjyang, Bhojpur, Kingdom of Nepal; (present day Mane Bhanjyang, Ramprasadrai Rural Municipality, Bhojpur, Koshi Province, Nepal;
Political party	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (until 2015)
Spouse	Madan Bhandari (m. 1982; died 1993)
Children	2
Parent(s)	Ram Bahadur Pandey (father); Mithila Pandey (mother)
Education	Bidhdhodaya Higher Secondary School, Bhojpur
Alma mater	Tribhuvan University (BA)

Bidya Devi Bhandari (Nepali: विद्यादेवी भण्डारी, pronounced [bid̚djadebi bʱʌɳɖaɾi]; born 19 June 1961) is a Nepali former politician who served as the second president of Nepal from 2015 to 2023. She formerly served as the minister of defence and minister of environment and population.

She was the first woman to hold the office in the country. She served as the vice-chairperson of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) and was the chair of the All Nepal Women's Association before being elected president. Bhandari previously served as the Minister of Defence, the first woman to hold the office, from 2009 to 2011. She also served as the Minister of Environment and Population in 1997, and has been an active campaigner for environmental awareness and women's rights in Nepal. In June 2017, she visited the headquarters of the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland and met with the director general Inger Andersen to discuss enhanced collaboration on nature conservation and sustainable development. In 2016, Forbes placed her as number 52 in their list of the world's 100 most powerful women.

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