Shesh Ghale is a Nepalese

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businessman and the former president of

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(NRNA). Based in

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, Ghale is the CEO of Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT), which he co-founded with his wife, Jamuna Gurung.

Biography

Born in the western

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village of

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in 1963, Ghale undertook his initial tertiary education in the former USSR (1979 to 1986) graduating with a Master of Civil Engineering degree from the

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. He undertook his studies on a Nepalese Government scholarship and, on returning to Nepal, worked as a highway project engineer for the Nepalese Government's transport department. Ghale relocated to Melbourne in 1990 to undertake further studies and to settle his family in Australia. He graduated from

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in 1994 with a Master of Business Administration. Ghale is the CEO and co-founder of the Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Net worth

Ghale and Gurung first appeared on the ''BRW'' Rich 200 in 2009, and jointly appeared on subsequent rich lists. , the

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of Gurung and Ghale was assessed by ''

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'' in the 2023 Rich List as approximately 900 million. Note * : Net worth held jointly with Jamuna Gurung.

References

External links

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