Sir Joseph Nombri KBE BEM ISO (1940 –2008) was a politician, administrator and diplomat in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Joseph Karl Nombri was born on 25 September 1940 in Wagl village, Pari, near Kundiawa in the Simbu Province in the Highlands of PNG.

Nombri received a scholarship to study in Australia, after which he joined the new Administrative College in Port Moresby, capital of what was then the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

[1][2][3][4] In the mid-1960s, Nombri was a member of the Bully Beef Club, which was a political discussion group made up of students at the Administrative College and others.

Having been earmarked by the administration as a troublemaker, he was sent to one of the country's most remote places, Kiunga on the Fly River in Western Province, close to the border with Indonesia.