Recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award from AIT, Thailand. Co-founder, Knowledge Holding International (KHInt), Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Business Incubation Consultant to The World Bank Group, UNIDO & FAO. Founder of Development Dynamics. Co-creator Decision Mentor mobile App for Individual Decision Support. Co-founder of The 100 Spaces.Thirty plus years of experience includes private sector financing with Nepal Industrial Development Corporation (NIDC); Headed SAARC Development Fund (SDF) Secretariat when it was in Nepal, taking over from Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), India and handed over to National Bank of Pakistan. Recent assignments are relating to innovation & entrepreneurship promotion for The World Bank Group in Nepal; Bangladesh, Ethiopia & Sierra Leone for UNIDO. Typical assignment associating with KHInt includes Diagnostic study of systems at SDF Secretariat in Bhutan, Development & Piloting multiple criteria sustainability monitoring framework for micro hydro plants. Experienced with business planning of incubators, hospitals and software companies; Appraisal of industrial projects.Light touch in academics as visiting faculty for Institute of Engineering, School of Management, Tribhuvan University (SOM TU) and Kathmandu University, School of Management (KUSOM), teaching Technology & Innovation Management, Innovation & New Venture Creation and Decision Support Systems (DSS), respectively. Research guidance on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) based Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) application for PhD and Master’s students (formal as well as informal).Among the Keynote Speakers at International Symposium on AHP (ISAHP2018), Hong Kong, Member, International Scientific Advisory Committee for International Symposiums on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP): ISAHP2005 Hawaii; ISAHP2007 Chile; ISAHP 2009 USA; ISAHP 2011 Italy; ISAHP 2013 Malaysia; ISAHP 2014 USA; ISAHP2016 UK; ISAHP2018 Hong Kong; ISAHP2020, ISAHP2022 & ISAHP2024 Virtual. Panel Hosted on the Renewable Energy Applications at the ISAHP2014, Washington DC, USA.Published more than four dozen papers on conference proceedings, book chapters and occasional papers from various international agencies in the area of Business, Banking, Infrastructure and socio-economic development mainly in application of AHP based multi criteria decision analysis, cited in more than five dozen publications. Countries of work and study experience includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Sierra Leone & Thailand.