Dr. Dinesh Chandra Devkota

Hon Member- Bagmati Provincial Parliament, Academician- National Academy of Science & Technology (NAST) GoN, Founder Chair Board of Trustee (BoT) Gandaki University, Gandaki (newly established State University in 2019), Visiting Professor, Centre Department Of Environmental Science (CDES), Tribhuvan University (TU) and former Vice Chair National Planning Commission (NPC) and many more responsibilities in prestigious institutions in Nepal. Major area of specialization are; Sustainable Development, Economics and Financial Management, Infrastructure Development and Governance, Technical Education, Policy Development, Climate Change, and others. 

Former Hon Vice Chairman NPC contributed in development planning of Nepal. Provided leadership on research, policy planning, programme development and monitoring of development task of country. In addition, contributed in high level policy formulation mainly in the Cooperatives movement, fields of technical education, livelihood promotion, entrepreneurship development, climate change policy (adaptation and mitigation), climate change and economic impact analysis, development and migration, green economy planning, and green jobs analysis, low carbon growth path, and public-private partnerships and many more.

Prior joining to NPC has more than 25 years of experience in development field mainly in infrastructure sector and technical and vocational education of Nepal.

Contributed in many national and international Seminar / Conferences as Key Note Speaker and in respectable senior roles of Session Chair/Moderator.

Achievements have been published, papers in many reputable national and international journals.

Dr Devkota has B Sc Civil Engineering from TU Nepal in 1989, Master Civil and Environmental Engineering from SIUC Carbondale ILL USA in 1994 and Ph D Engineering Science from Saitama -C, Saitama Japan in 2004.