On Thursday 26 July 2007 General Rookmangud Katawal, Chief of the Army Staff Nepal, will speak on "Security Challenges in Post-Conflict Transition" from 4-5pm.
General Rookmangud Katawal was appointed as Chief of the Army Staff of the Nepalese Army on 10 September 2006. Earlier, he was Chief of General Staff from 10 September 2004 to 10 September 2006 in the rank of Lieutenant General, and commanded the then Western Division in the peak of counterinsurgency operations between December 2003 and August 2004. General Katawal is also 'Colonel Commandant' of his old battalion, Shree Pashupati Prashad.
On 29 December 2001, General Katawal was appointed the first co-coordinator of the National Security Council Secretariat. He also served as the Adjutant General (AG) and the Director of Military Intelligence of the Nepalese Army, and as the Commandant of the Royal Nepalese Military Academy. He holds the distinction of having commanded three consecutive Brigades, two Infantry and one Special Forces. He has also served in the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) in the Suez Canal area, and has been the Nepalese Government's Liaison Officer to the Brigade of Gurkhas of the British Army and Government of Hong Kong, and the Chief Military Personnel Officer of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
A graduate of the Indian National Defence Academy and the Indian Military Academy, he holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Nepal's Tribhuwan University and a Masters Degree in National Defence from Pakistan's Quaid-i-Azam University. General Katawal is also the Distinguished International Honour Graduate of the U.S. Special Forces Course, and earned the coveted Gideon in the U.S. Ranger Course. He is also a graduate of the Army Command and Staff College, Camberley, UK, the Senior Command Course, India and the National Defence College, Pakistan.
We are delighted to welcome General Rookmangud Katawal to the IISS.
This event will take place on the Fourth Floor at Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Kathleen James on E-mail:
james@iiss.org or Tel: 020 7395 9109.
