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Sustainable Mountain Development No. 56, ICIMOD, Winter 2009
Ms Anusha Joshi, Web Ms Noorin Nazari, Governance
Associate, Integrated Knowledge Specialist, Sustainable
Management Livelihoods and Poverty
Reduction Programme
Ms Joshi, a Nepali national,
joined ICIMOD as a Web Ms Nazari, an Afghan-Canadian
Associate in August 2009. She national, joined ICIMOD in June
will be promoting ICIMOD’s web 2009 as Governance Specialist
presence and managing its web to provide technical expertise and
content. Prior to joining ICIMOD, she worked as the a support to the Improving Local Governance Project,
knowledge management coordinator with BrightMind and to mainstream good governance practices in
Synergy Pvt. Ltd., an IT company based in Kathmandu, ICIMOD at the level of both the organisation and its
where she also worked as a functional consultant programmes. Ms Nazari has experience working in
for Naviworld Nepal. She has given lectures in ICT- Afghanistan, Nepal, and Pakistan, and Canada and
related areas in Kathmandu College of Management, the United States, with national governments, the UN
Kathmandu Engineering College, and Management and civil society organisations. Ms. Nazari’s most
Development Campus, the Management Association recent experiences include working for the National
of Nepal, as a visiting lecturer. She has an ME in Solidarity Programme in Afghanistan, where she was
Information & Communications Technologies from the involved in the Afghan Government’s governance
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. programme; as a subject matter expert working for
the Centre for Intercultural Learning of the Canadian
Dr Giridhar Kinhal, Team Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Leader High Value Products & in Canada; and as a regional gender advisor working
Value Chains, and Coordinator for the Canadian Centre for International Cooperation
MAPPA, Sustainable Livelihoods and Education in Nepal. Ms Nazari has a Bachelor’s
and Poverty Reduction degree in Public Affairs and Policy Management from
Programme Carleton University, Canada; and a Master’s degree in
International Development - Project Management from
Dr. Kinhal joined ICIMOD as
Duke University, USA.
Team Leader High Value Products
& Value Chains, and Coordinator for the Medicinal
Ms Doma T Sherpa,
and Aromatic Plants Programme in Asia (MAPPA) in
Communications Associate
April 2009. As an Indian Forest Service Offi cer with
the Government of India, he brings with him more than Ms Sherpa, a Nepalese
29 years of administrative and fi eld experience in forest national, joined ICIMOD as a
management and research. As an Additional Secretary Communications Associate in July
to the Government of Madhya Pradesh, he was involved 2009. Prior to this she worked
in the development of several policy interventions in the as an intern with ICIMOD’s
forestry sector, especially in developing participatory Public Relations unit for one
forest management. Dr Kinhal has rich experience year and for a short time as a consultant within the
working in the NGO sector in addition to serving as Resource Mobilisation and External Relations unit.
a member on important national and international She was involved in different types of outreach and
bodies. Dr. Kinhal has a Master of Professional Services dissemination activities in both units, and especially with
degree in natural resource management and policy the photo exhibition: Himalaya – Changing Landscapes.
analysis from the State University of New York, College She is currently pursuing a postgraduate degree in
of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, Environmental Management at the School of Environment
and several technical papers on forestry issues to Management and Sustainable Development (SchEMS)
his credit in international and national journals and in Kathmandu, Nepal. A mountain person by birth, Ms.
magazines, including a book on Adaptive Management Sherpa enjoys working in this regional development and
of Medicinal Plants and NTFPs. He has twice been learning centre, and is pleased to have the opportunity
awarded the Brandis Memorial Prize by the ICFRE/ to work for the betterment of mountains and people.
Indian Forester, Dehradun, for his scientifi c papers.
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