Shankar Man Shrestha

Chairperson, Centre for Self help Development (CSD)
Nepal

Mr. Shankar Man Shrestha is a microfinance expert with more than 50 years of experience in the rural and microfinance industry. He is the Chairman, and the founder Executive Director of the Centre for Self-help Development (CSD), which is the pioneer microfinance NGO in Nepal. He worked as the CEO (from August 1999 to April 2014) in Rural Microfinance Development Centre Ltd., the first wholesale lending organization for microfinance, which has been instrumental in promoting and developing the sector in Nepal. He has also worked in the Agricultural Development Bank Ltd. under various capacities for 25 years.

He holds an M.A. Degree in Economics from Tribhuvan University, Nepal and was a special student of Agricultural Economics at the Texas A&M University, USA. He has a long and rich experience in the microfinance fraternity both at home and abroad.