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Minister of Finance (Nepal)

The minister of finance (or simply, the finance minister, ( Nepali: अर्थ मन्त्री ) is the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Nepal. One of the senior-most officers in the Federal Cabinet, the finance minister is responsible for the fiscal policy of the government. A key duty of the finance minister is to present the annual federal budget in Parliament, detailing the government's plan for taxation and spending in the coming financial year. Through the budget, the finance minister also outlines allocations to all the ministries and departments. The minister is assisted by the minister of state for finance and the junior deputy minister of finance.

The current minister is Dr. Swarnim Wagle who took office on 27 March 2026.

List of ministers of finance

Kingdom of Nepal

This s a list of all former finance ministers of the Kingdom of Nepal and their appointments until 2008:

  1. Subarna Shamsher Rana, February 1951
  2. Kaiser Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, 1952
  3. Matrika Prasad Koirala, June 1953
  4. S. Gunjaman Singh, January 1957
  5. C. B. Singh, July 1957
  6. Subarna Shamsher Rana, May 1958
  7. Rishikesh Shah, December 1960
  8. Surya Bahadur Thapa, July 1962
  9. Surendra Bahadur Basnet, September 1968
  10. Kirti Nidhi Bista, April 1969
  11. Gehendra Bahadur Rajbhandari, April 1970
  12. Kirti Nidhi Bista, April 1971
  13. Bhekh Bahadur Thapa, July 1973
  14. Ram Prasad Rajbahak, April 1979
  15. Surya Bahadur Thapa, May 1979
  16. Yadav Pant, June 1980
  17. Prakash Chandra Lohani, July 1983
  18. Bharat Bahadur Thapa, March 1986
  19. Pashupati Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, April 1990
  20. Devendra Raj Pandey, April 1990
  21. Girija Prasad Koirala, May 1991
  22. Mahesh Acharya, December 1991
  23. Bharat Mohan Adhikari, November 1994
  24. Ram Saran Mahat, September 1995
  25. Rabindra Nath Sharma, March 1997
  26. Ram Saran Mahat, April 1998
  27. Bharat Mohan Adhikari, December 1998
  28. Mahesh Acharya, May 1999
  29. Ram Saran Mahat, July 2001
  30. Badri Prasad Shrestha, October 2003
  31. Prakash Chandra Lohani, June 2003
  32. Bharat Mohan Adhikari, June 2004
  33. Madhukar Shamsher Rana, February 2005

Transition phase of Nepal

This is a list of finance ministers of the Nepal during its transition phase (2008 - 2013):

Since 2013

This is a list of all finance ministers since the Nepalese Constituent Assembly election in 2013:

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