Dr. Man Bishwakarma

Dr. Man Bahadur Bishwakarma (BK in short) has completed his postdoc research on food security as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2016/17) at Brandeis University, USA. He obtained Ph.D on Social Inclusion in Microfinance in 2012 from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He did postgraduate diploma in Social Studies from the ISS, Netherlands (2004), MA (Economics) in Rural and Cooperative Development (2000) and MBA (1991) in Financial management from Tribhuvan University, Diploma (1997) in Agro-Cooperative Management from Japan. He has long working experience with various international development agencies such as GiZ, Save the Children, UNICEF, CWS UK, UNDP etc. He has profound experience on conflict, peace and constitution building process as he led the Constitutional Dialogue Centre/UNDP during the Constitutional Assembly-I in Nepal. In 2010, he rejoined the government bureaucracy as a joint secretary and served as the Director General for Labour Department, Chief District Officer in several districts, Secretary for provincial Government of Lumbini and Karnali; and the Principal Secretary for Bagamati province. He took retirement from government Bureaucracy on April 2021. He has been serving as a visiting faculty at Tribhuvan University/Nepal, Kathmandu University/Nepal and Akamai University/USA; and written a dozen of text books for college students and several books on development issues including Social Inclusion in Microfinance, Eradicating Hunger: Rebuilding Food Regime.

He is originally from Palpa, Lumbini, Nepal