A Nepali has been appointed as Director at the Headquarters of World Health Organisation (WHO), Geneva on Tuesday.

Director-General Margaret Chan appointed Shambu Acharya, a Nepali national, as the Director of Country Cooperation and Collaboration with the UN System (CCU). Acharya will assume his position from 1 March 2016.

Acharya holds a PhD in Health Policy and Management from Gillings School of Global Public Health of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He has been actively working in health sector since 1985 and was associated with WHO since 1992.