Dr. Pukar Malla has been leading parallel careers as a leadership coach, community organizer, and innovation specialist. As a Founder and Executive Chairperson of a leadership non-profit, Daayitwa, he has been organizing youth to lead innovative solutions in the government, business and civil society sectors,

As a Former Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, he investigated and piloted frameworks for communities of innovations to lead change. As a Senior Innovation Policy Specialist at the World Bank, he supported Indian, Chinese and Ghanian governments to promote innovation and inclusive growth. Prior to that, he led technology designs at Intel, AMD, Silicon Graphics, and a Silicon Valley startup, and secured 2 US patents. He received his Bachelors from Swarthmore College, with a focus on engineering and economics. He spent 3 years at Cornell, attaining a MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Business Management. He earned his MPA from Harvard Kennedy School. While at Harvard, he also led the university-wide Harvard Graduate Student Government as its elected President.

Nisha is a gender and climate change expert with a decade of experience in managing research projects, capacity-building programs, building women’s networks and advocating at national, regional and international levels. She has led policy research in South Asia and South East Asia related to climate change adaptation, livelihood diversification and gender and climate change. She has also participated and presented papers in various climate change workshops and conferences, and is actively involved in gender and climate change scholar networks. She has also published papers and book reviews in peer-reviewed journals. Nisha is also a guest lecturer for courses such as gender, environment and development guest lecturer for the Environment Development and Sustainability Interdisciplinary Program in Graduate School of the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.

Nisha was on the steering committee of the EmPower: Women for Climate Resilient Societies Project, which is a five-year project funded by the SIDA and jointly implemented by UN Women and the UNEP. She is also the NGO representative for the Grow Asia Partners Advisory Council which is an independent advisory body comprising government agencies, non-profit entities, and non-government organizations representing the range of agriculture-based societal and environmental issues facing the region. Nisha is also the Regional Coordinator for WOCAN. Nisha has a PhD from Gender and Development studies from the Asian Institute of Technology. 

Salina Bhattarai serves as the Governance and Research Coordinator at GovLab, where she conducts research on governance and public sector strengthening. In addition to research, Salina also coordinates the outreach efforts of GovLab with government and policy partners.  She also provides relevant support to other entities of Daayitwa Abhiyaan, including the Leadership for Economic Governance project. 

She holds two Masters degrees, one in Public Administration from Central Michigan University in the USA, and the other in Sustainable Development from Kathmandu University. She has a wealth of experience in the field of governance, having previously worked as a Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation Officer at Informal Sector Service Center (Insec), a Research Consultant at National Disaster Risk Reduction Centre, and a Graduate Assistant at Central Michigan University. 

Medha Joshi is the Research Manager at GovLab where she supports Research and Evidence for Nepal’s Teansition (RENT) project. Her research interests lie in the area of governance and accountability.

Prior to working at GovLab, she was working as a consultant at the World Bank facilitating the Agile Bank Evaluation survey to map out the management practices within units and staff experiences within the organization. She has also served as a Teach For Nepal Fellow teaching English to secondary school students in rural Lalitpur.

Pratigya works on day-to-day operational and long-term strategic goals of IE Nepal. She has an experience of over a decade in managing operations and communications in various organizations.

LEADERSHIP AND RESEARCH ANALYST

PEOPLE’S OPERATION OFFICER

FINANCE AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER

Sakila looks after administration in Inclusion Economics Nepal at Governance Lab. She has completed her bachelor’s degree in Business Studies form St. Xavier’s College. Previously, she worked as an Admin in a Telecom project.

Gauri Shankar has completed his Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Master’s in Economics from Howard University. His interests lie at the intersection of politics and economics with a focus on issues of representation and inclusion. At Inclusion Economics Nepal, his role is to provide assistance in collecting data from different sources, cleaning them up and getting insights from them to answer broader research questions.answer broader research questions.

Aayushma primarily works with data. She is involved in data preparation and analysis, and aspires to expand her understanding of mathematics and societies. Additionally, she enjoys long walks, fat books, and idle musings. 

At Inclusion Economics Nepal, Anubhav works on preparing and analyzing research data. He is interested in the intersection of economics, mathematics and programming. Learn more about him

Siddhartha is Currently working as Governance and Research Intern. Before joining the Governance lab, he worked as a Research intern at the National Young Academy of Nepal.

He is also an alumni of  Aspire Leaders program,  founded at Harvard University. His research interest lies in a broader range of subjects, mainly Economic development and Applied Econometrics.