Shankar Man Shrestha

Chairman, Centre for Self-help Development (CSD)
Nepal

Mr. Shankar Man Shrestha has been involved in the microfinance sector for more than 50 years. He is the promoter and advocator of the clean microfinance campaign in Nepal and the Chairman of Centre for Self-help Development (CSD), a pioneer MFI in Nepal. He is also one of the nine promoters and the founder Executive Director of CSD. He also served as the Chairman of the Centre for Rural Technology (CRT) Nepal and was also a member of advisory committee of Samriddha Pahad, UK and Samriddha Pahad Company Nepal. He had also served as the Board Director of Nepal Banking Institute (NBI) since its inception to April 2014. In his early career he worked in the Agricultural Development Bank Ltd. where he was involved for more than 25 years in various capacities such as Director of Agricultural Credit Training Institute, Chief of Credit Department, Regional Manager and the latest being Deputy General Manager. He was a member of the Evaluation Team for the prestigious AGFUND International Prize 2018. He has an M.A. Degree in Economics from Tribhuvan University and was a special student of Agricultural Economics at the Texas A&M University, USA. Mr. Shrestha has attended the HBS-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership at Harvard Business School, USA. Mr. Shrestha has long and rich experience of organizing and facilitating microfinance seminars, conferences, summits, workshops and training programs. He has delivered sessions at several seminars and conferences as guest speaker both at home and aboard. His articles and research papers covering both national and international topics and issues have been published in coveted newspapers, journals and magazines around the world.