Mohan Das Manandhar is an expert in climate change, political economy analysis, energy policies, socio-political dimension of government and social inclusion. He has more than 35 years of hands-on experience in government agencies, development organizations, academic institutions, and private sector enterprises in Nepal, South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan), South East Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Myanmar), and Africa (Liberia). Mr. Manandhar is Chairperson of Sustainable Prosperity Initiative (SPI) Nepal and Executive Chairperson of Organisation Development Centre (ODC).
He was Executive Director of Niti Foundation and also served as chairperson of a development bank. Mr. Manandhar was the Political Economy Consultant for Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), conducting Political Economy Analysis (PEA) of the energy and electricity sector of Nepal in designing an economic reform programme for the Government of Nepal. He served as senior academic advisor to Nepal Administrative Staff College (NASC) and was a visiting scholar at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He is an adviser of Displacement Research and Action Network (DRAN)/MIT and a member of the Nepal Research Advisory Group, the Program of Resilient Communities, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He did his BE (Civil) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Roorkee and MBA from the International University of Japan (IUJ).
