Mr. Mohan Das Manandhar is a prominent policy and political economy specialist with more than 35 years of experience spanning inclusive development, energy policy, and organizational management across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa. He is the Chairperson of the Sustainable Prosperity Initiative (SPI) Nepal and has previously served as the founding Executive Director of the Niti Foundation, senior academic advisor to the Nepal Administrative Staff College (NNAS), and a policy advisor to Nepal's National Inclusion Commission. An alumnus of IIT Roorkee and the International University of Japan, his academic footprint includes serving as an Assistant Professor and Interim Dean at Kathmandu University, a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-authoring authoritative books on Nepal's public policy, such as Nepal's Economy In Disarray and State and Society: Exclusion and Inclusion in Nepal