I protect the pulse of the planet through my work in an incredibly inspiring landscape, which many call the “roof of the world,” by creating content and interventions, and sharing knowledge and communicating opportunities with a broad range of stakeholders.

My many favorite parts of the work I do at ICIMOD include the communication, relationships, and the people. But I also find inspiring the critically important work of designing programme content with partners to create, share, and amplify for impact.

I am a conservation and development activist and enthusiast. I love working to harmonize conservation with development and I am especially passionate about multidisciplinary engagement in a transboundary context.

I have a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) and twenty years of development experience focused on livelihoods, poverty, and emergency/disaster recovery, market development, entrepreneurship, private sector, trade, and ecotourism. Recent work experiences have focused on facilitating dialogues around planning and management of protected areas, ecosystem assessments and valuation and conducting ecotourism assessments for strategy and policy design. I’m well versed in effective partnering and engaging multiple stakeholders including children, youth, elders, farmers, producers, women, men, authorities, micro-entrepreneurs and investors. I use a combination of art and science skills while planning and managing programmes so as to combine conservation and development for lasting impact.