Anuradha Kafle works as research communication officer and has been with SANDEE for the last ten years. Anu manages the information and research dissemination process in SANDEE. She organizes regional training workshops within South Asia, and supports implementation of programs in underserved areas. She also manages SANDEE's website. Before joining SANDEE she worked as a lecturer in KIST teaching Zoology to undergraduates. Her first full time professional experience was as a Program Assistant in the GEF/Small Grants Program of UNDP, Nepal. She has a Masters degree in Zoology from Tribhuwan University, Nepal. Her research work was on Wildlife Conservation focused on 'Blackbuck Conservation,'  which is an endangered species in Nepal.

Malvika Joshi is working as finance assistant in SANDEE since September 2009. She is responsible for the financial management of SANDEE funds and she is also an integral part of ICIMOD's finance team. Ms Malvika worked as financial consultant in Navi World Nepal and Accounts officer in its sister concern Mount Digit Technology before she moved to ICIMOD. She holds a Bachelors degree in Business Management and is undergoing ACCA certification.

Mani Nepal is an environmental/development economist. Before joining SANDEE, he worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico during 2007-08. He has also worked as an economist for the Department of Finance and Administration (New Mexico, USA), Action Aid Nepal, Agricultural Projects Service Center, and Nepal Foundation for Advanced Studies. His research is published in journals such as Land Economics, International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Policy Studies, and the Economic Journal of Nepal. Dr. Nepal has a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in Resource/Environmental and Development Economics, and Master of Science in Policy Economics from the University of Illinois.

Neesha Pradhan 

Neesha Pradhan recently joined SANDEE as Progam associate and manages the grant activity. Before joining SANDEE, she was working in Micronutrient Initiative, CIDA funded project for more than five years. She was involved in grant management and project administration during her tenure in Micronutrient Initiative. She has a Masters Degree in development communication from the College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Priya Shyamsundar is Program Director and oversees SANDEE supported research and training in the area of natural resource management, valuation of non-market goods, common property resource use and the economics of pollution management. Priya has also been a consultant for the World Bank for many years. Her work for the Bank has mostly been on issues related to poverty and environment and, more recently, climate change. Prior to her work with SANDEE and the Bank, Priya served as Senior Program Officer for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and as Research Associate at the Institute of Social Studies Trust. Priya's research interests range over a number of topics within environment and development economics. She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics from Duke University and a Masters in Economics from Delhi University. Her other most important qualification is being mom to two happy and challenging children: Tulsi and Kabir.