2 April, 2019
Hotel Himalaya, Lalitpur
Himalayan Consensus Summit (HCS) is a multi-stakeholder event convening environmentalists, civil societies, government, development institutions, business leaders and private sectors across the Himalayan region to forge pragmatic solutions that can offer communities’ economic empowerment and resilience against climate distortion.
Vincent Wierda is the Regional Coordinator of Financial Inclusion programmes of UNCDF in Asia. He has extensive working experience in the field of clean energy financing and financial inclusion in Asia and Africa. His additional experiences are in SME promotion, business development, agricultural value chains and rural development.
Ramesh Bhushal has more than fifteen years of experience in environmental journalism and serves as Nepal Editor for The Third Pole, a GeoJournalism news site that focuses on the Himalayas. He is an expert member of the Environment Protection Council, headed by Nepal’s Prime Minister and has previously served as a climate negotiator for the Nepali government at the UNFCCC.
Pradeep S. Mehta is a writer, speaker, trainer and organizer in the social science field and currently serves in the Board of Trade and Steering Committee on Ecomark of the Government of India. He is a former honorary adviser to the Commerce and Industries Minister of India and to the Director-General of the WTO.
Tshering Cigay Dorji has been instrumental in accelerating the vibrancy and bringing together technology and youth entrepreneurship in Thimphu TechPark, Bhutan’s First IT Park . He has over 14 years of experience in programming, teaching, information system design, database administration, research and corporate management.
Robert W. Parenteau is a Chartered Financial Analyst who serves as an investment strategist to institutional investors through his consulting firm, MacroStrategy Edge. He leads the Finance Working Group at 1000 Landscapes, a regenerative economy design hub at EcoAgriculture Partners.
Franz J. Hahn is responsible for setting the strategic directions and leading Peak Re to achieve its goal. In his long career, he has focused experience in building successful reinsurance business in Greater China and the broader Asia Pacific. He previously worked as a member of the Insurance Advisory Committee to the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong.
Bibek Debroy is a well-known economist who has had ample experience working in several political and economic institutes around India, including Department of Economic Research and National Council of Applied Economic Research. He has authored as well as edited several books, papers, and articles and also has been a Contributing Editor/Consultant to many newspapers.
Amrita Tripathi is passionate about raising awareness on mental health issues with her online site, The Health Collective. She is a journalist and a writer of contemporary fiction with books like Broken News and The Sibius Knot. She also writes for various digital media platforms and provides consultations on the same.
Mahendra P. Lama, a noted development economist, is a senior Professor in School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Presently a High End Expert at the Institute of South Asian Studies, Sichuan University in China, he is also a Member of Eminent Persons Group from India on Nepal-India Relations.
Arnico Panday is Senior Atmospheric Scientist and Coordinator of the Atmosphere Initiative at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Until recently, he was also a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has conducted postdoctoral research at MIT and at Princeton University’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and provided advices to the governments of Rwanda, Bhutan and Nepal.
