Shadananda Municipality-8,Tungechha Dingla Bhojpur
Pitambar Shrestha has over 30 years of professional experience in agriculture, biodiversity, and natural resources management. He started his career as a front-line staff, gaining valuable field experience. Later, he transitioned into management roles at LI-BIRD, including serving as a Program Operations Director. Although his primary focus is Nepal and South Asia, he also worked for a year with a Norwegian NGO, the Development Fund, based in Oslo.
Pitambar has been extensively involved in designing and implementing agricultural biodiversity management programs. He has conducted numerous national and international trainings on participatory approaches to agricultural biodiversity management, including community seed banks and participatory plant breeding. Additionally, he has shared his experiences in several national and international workshops, seminars, and symposiums.
Pitambar represented civil society organizations for the first two years and then Nepal in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Farmers’ Rights (AHTEG-FR) within the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), FAO, from 2018 to 2021. From 2024 to 2025, he represents Community Seed Bank Nepal.
Birgunj Metrocity-13,Shreepur, Parsa
Shashi Bhushan Pradhan holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Tribhuvan University (T.U.) and currently serves as the co-founder and director at LINKS Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (LCPL). He has accumulated over 25 years of extensive work experience, particularly in financial management, office administration, human resource management, internal control systems, and general organization management, with 15 years of service including serving as a Admin and Finance Director at LI-BIRD, a prominent non-profit organization specialized in agriculture, biodiversity, and natural resource management.
Additionally, Shashi provides financial advisory services to private companies such as Anamolbiu Pvt. Ltd., and Annapaat Agro Pvt. Ltd. His expertise also extends to managing project-implementing partners, NGOs, and private companies, developing and overseeing training programs in financial management and business plan development aspects for partner organizations and cooperatives. He has also served as a member in various research and studies.
Furthermore, Shashi possesses substantial experience in auditing including statutory and internal audits, tax, and VAT audits in private and public companies, industries, and non-government sectors.
Shadananda Municipality 8, Dingla, Bhojpur
Pitambar Shrestha has over 30 years of professional experience in agriculture, biodiversity, and natural resources management. He started his career as a front-line staff, gaining valuable field experience. Later, he transitioned into management roles at LI-BIRD, including serving as a Program Operations Director. Although his primary focus is Nepal and South Asia, he also worked for a year with a Norwegian NGO, the Development Fund, based in Oslo.
Pitambar has been extensively involved in designing and implementing agricultural biodiversity management programs. He has conducted numerous national and international trainings on participatory approaches to agricultural biodiversity management, including community seed banks and participatory plant breeding. Additionally, he has shared his experiences in several national and international workshops, seminars, and symposiums.
Pitambar represented civil society organizations for the first two years and then Nepal in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Farmers’ Rights (AHTEG-FR) within the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), FAO, from 2018 to 2021. From 2024 to 2025, he represents Community Seed Bank Nepal.
Shadananda Municipality 8, Dingla, Bhojpur
Pitambar Shrestha has over 30 years of professional experience in agriculture, biodiversity, and natural resources management. He started his career as a front-line staff, gaining valuable field experience. Later, he transitioned into management roles at LI-BIRD, including serving as a Program Operations Director. Although his primary focus is Nepal and South Asia, he also worked for a year with a Norwegian NGO, the Development Fund, based in Oslo.
Pitambar has been extensively involved in designing and implementing agricultural biodiversity management programs. He has conducted numerous national and international trainings on participatory approaches to agricultural biodiversity management, including community seed banks and participatory plant breeding. Additionally, he has shared his experiences in several national and international workshops, seminars, and symposiums.
Pitambar represented civil society organizations for the first two years and then Nepal in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Farmers’ Rights (AHTEG-FR) within the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), FAO, from 2018 to 2021. From 2024 to 2025, he represents Community Seed Bank Nepal.
Shadananda Municipality 8, Dingla, Bhojpur
Pitambar Shrestha has over 30 years of professional experience in agriculture, biodiversity, and natural resources management. He started his career as a front-line staff, gaining valuable field experience. Later, he transitioned into management roles at LI-BIRD, including serving as a Program Operations Director. Although his primary focus is Nepal and South Asia, he also worked for a year with a Norwegian NGO, the Development Fund, based in Oslo.
Pitambar has been extensively involved in designing and implementing agricultural biodiversity management programs. He has conducted numerous national and international trainings on participatory approaches to agricultural biodiversity management, including community seed banks and participatory plant breeding. Additionally, he has shared his experiences in several national and international workshops, seminars, and symposiums.
Pitambar represented civil society organizations for the first two years and then Nepal in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Farmers’ Rights (AHTEG-FR) within the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), FAO, from 2018 to 2021. From 2024 to 2025, he represents Community Seed Bank Nepal.
Birgunj Metorcity 13, Shreepur, Parsa
Shashi Bhushan Pradhan holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Tribhuvan University (T.U.) and currently serves as the co-founder and director at LINKS Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (LCPL). He has accumulated over 25 years of extensive work experience, particularly in financial management, office administration, human resource management, internal control systems, and general organization management, with 15 years of service including serving as a Admin and Finance Director at LI-BIRD, a prominent non-profit organization specialized in agriculture, biodiversity, and natural resource management.
Additionally, Shashi provides financial advisory services to private companies such as Anamolbiu Pvt. Ltd., and Annapaat Agro Pvt. Ltd. His expertise also extends to managing project-implementing partners, NGOs, and private companies, developing and overseeing training programs in financial management and business plan development aspects for partner organizations and cooperatives. He has also served as a member in various research and studies.
Furthermore, Shashi possesses substantial experience in auditing including statutory and internal audits, tax, and VAT audits in private and public companies, industries, and non-government sectors.
Shadananda Municipality-8,Tungechha Dingla Bhojpur
Pitambar Shrestha has over 30 years of professional experience in agriculture, biodiversity, and natural resources management. He started his career as a front-line staff, gaining valuable field experience. Later, he transitioned into management roles at LI-BIRD, including serving as a Program Operations Director. Although his primary focus is Nepal and South Asia, he also worked for a year with a Norwegian NGO, the Development Fund, based in Oslo.
Pitambar has been extensively involved in designing and implementing agricultural biodiversity management programs. He has conducted numerous national and international trainings on participatory approaches to agricultural biodiversity management, including community seed banks and participatory plant breeding. Additionally, he has shared his experiences in several national and international workshops, seminars, and symposiums.
Pitambar represented civil society organizations for the first two years and then Nepal in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Farmers’ Rights (AHTEG-FR) within the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), FAO, from 2018 to 2021. From 2024 to 2025, he represents Community Seed Bank Nepal.
Shadananda Municipality-8,Tungechha Dingla Bhojpur
Shashi Bhushan Pradhan holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Tribhuvan University (T.U.) and currently serves as the co-founder and director at LINKS Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (LCPL). He has accumulated over 25 years of extensive work experience, particularly in financial management, office administration, human resource management, internal control systems, and general organization management, with 15 years of service including serving as a Admin and Finance Director at LI-BIRD, a prominent non-profit organization specialized in agriculture, biodiversity, and natural resource management.
Additionally, Shashi provides financial advisory services to private companies such as Anamolbiu Pvt. Ltd., and Annapaat Agro Pvt. Ltd.
His expertise also extends to managing project-implementing partners, NGOs, and private companies, developing and overseeing training programs in financial management and business plan development aspects for partner organizations and cooperatives. He has also served as a member in various research and studies.
Furthermore, Shashi possesses substantial experience in auditing including statutory and internal audits, tax, and VAT audits in private and public companies, industries, and non-government sectors.
