Shishir Khanal

Shisir Khanal is a Nepali politician and senior member of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). He is a two-term Member of Parliament from Kathmandu 6, having been first elected in 2022 and re-elected in the 2026 general election amid the RSP's landslide victory. He briefly served as Minister of Education, Science and Technology in 2023 before the RSP withdrew from the coalition government. Khanal is a co-founder of Teach For Nepal and has been active in RSP's leadership, including as head of its foreign affairs and tourism departments, a central secretariat member, and a key negotiator in post-election alliances. He has been mentioned as a potential candidate for Foreign Minister in the new RSP-led government.