Mani Nepalis SANDEE Program Coordinator and Lead Economist at ICIMOD. Dr. Nepal coordinates SANDEE research activities and trainings, leads research grant program, provides technical support and mentors researchers, edits SANDEE Working Paper Series, and leads research activities at SANDEE. Earlier, Dr. Nepal worked as an Associate Professor of Economics at Tribhuvan University, Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, USA, Visiting Professor at Kathmandu University, and Adjunct Professor at Agriculture and Forestry University. He also held Senior Economist position at the Department of Finance and Administration, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; and an Economist position at the Nepal Foundation for Advanced Studies, and Agricultural Projects Service Center. He is an applied economist with the research interest in the intersection of development and environmental issues including non-market valuation, climate change economics, energy transition, program evaluation and social issues such as social network, poverty, inequality and violent conflict.
Dr. Nepal’s research has been published in high impact peer reviewed journals including American Journal of Political Science, Climatic Change, Ecological Economics, Ecology and Society, Energy for Sustainable Development, Environmental Research Letters, Environment and Development Economics, Forest Policy and Economics, International Labor Review, Journal of Conflict Resolutions,Journal of Forest Economics, Land Economics.PLOS ONE, Policy Studies Journal, Sustainability, Water, Water Policy, Water Economics and Policy, and World Development, among others.
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