Dr Shesh Ghale is a Nepali businessman, billionaire and the president of the Non-Resident Nepali Association. Based in Melbourne, Victoria, Shesh Ghale is the CEO of Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT), which he co-founded together with his wife, Jamuna Gurung.
He Born withinside the western Nepal village of Lamjung, Ghale undertook his preliminary tertiary education withinside the former USSR (1979 to 1986), graduating with a Master of Civil Engineering diploma from the Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University. He undertook his research on a Nepalese Government scholarship and, on returning to Nepal, worked as a highway assignment engineer for the Nepalese Government's transport department. Ghale relocated to Melbourne in 1990 to adopt research similarly and to settle his family in Australia. He graduated from Victoria University with a Master of Business Administration.
He is actively involved in Melbourne's business enterprise and commercial lifestyles and has a passionate dedication to education.
Ghale is the CEO of the Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Ghale and his wife are the first billionaires withinside the global Nepalese diaspora and the only 2nd billionaire of Nepalese origin.
Ghale and Gurung first seemed at the BRW Rich 200 in 2009, and together seemed on subsequent rich lists. With a net worth of about A$1.18 billion in 2019, Ghale and Gurung had been named through The Australian Financial Review Rich List as the 78th richest Australians. They had been formerly ranked as the 81st-richest Australian through The Australian Financial Review withinside the 2018 Rich List.
Ghale is known for his philanthropic work, specially withinside the aftermath of the April and May 2015 earthquakes in Nepal, in addition to his rise from a worldwide student to his list on the listing of Australian billionaires. Following the 2015 Nepal earthquakes, Shesh Ghale led well-coordinated comfort and reconstruction activities. He and his wife spent a great deal of the subsequent years leading the marketing campaign by stationing themselves closer to the ground zero of the devastating earthquake.
Some of his key achievements included provider as the Honorary Consul General of Nepal in Victoria (1997-2000); nominated for the 2013 Ernst and Young Australian Entrepreneur of the Year Award; elected president of the Non-Resident Nepali Association for an inaugural two-year term (2013–2015) and re-elected for a 2nd two-year term (2015–2017); presented Doctor of the University Honoris Causa in 2015 by the Federation University in reputation of Ghale's distinguished provider and contribution to Australian Higher Education, and to urban maintenance and development, and of a path to the people of Nepal; appointed "Special Envoy for Nepal Earthquake Reconstruction and Development" through the Government of Nepal in 2015; and withinside the same year appointed "Goodwill Ambassador for 2015-17" withinside the Male Leaders withinside the marketing campaign against Domestic Violence through the Nepalese Ministry of Children, Women and Social Services.
In 2015, Ghale and Gurung co-founded the MIT Group Foundation to assist underprivileged and inclined groups of Nepal via education and health. They have donated NPR रू1 billion to the Foundation.
