BK Shrestha is founder and director of Global Action Nepal. BK holds a Masters in Education Administration and Management and a BA in Law. He started his career with the US Peace Corps Nepal. BK also established Students Partnership Worldwide UK in Nepal and served as a country director.

Dr Keshav Kumar Shrestha is GAN vice president. He holds a PhD. in Anthropology and a Masters in Education and Administration. He has worked at Tribhuwan University in various capacities including advisor to the Vice Chancellor, Executive Director, Curriculum Development Centre, Research Committee Member of Humanity and Social Science, Member of Academic Council, Chairman of Subject Committee of Sociology, HSEB, Multimedia program development, Board Member of Quality Assurance and accreditation for Higher Education in Nepal.

Neera Shakya is a GAN board member and holds a Masters in Administration & Supervision. A former joint secretary at the ministry of education, she also worked as a Regional Director in Nepal’s central region. She started her career as a District Education Officer, Secondary School Supervisor and Training Officer for the Ministry of Education, Nepal.

Nimdiki Sherpa is GAN’s general secretary. She holds a Masters in business studies and has specific expertise in early year education particularly in Montessori. She started working as a manager in Medical Clinic and affiliated to Daleki School. At present, she is the founder and managing director for beads for life and founder Principal of the Modern Educare Montessori school.

Mr. Subarna Kumar Karmacharya is GAN Executive Board Member. He holds Master's degree in Public Administration (Development Admn.), Master's in Education (Curriculum Evaluation) and B. L from Tribhuwan University. He has completed Diploma in Social Leadership from SERSOLIN, Xavier University, Philippines.

He is formal Director of National Human Rights Commission-Nepal. He worked at various capacities including Departmental chief of Admin./ Finance, Policy Planning, HR Advocacy and promotion, and Coordination Dept. He also worked as Regional director of Eastern Regional office, Biratnagar and Central Regional office, Janakpur.

He started his career as Secondary School Teacher for 10 years. Then he joined Rastriya Banijya Bank and acquired experience in HRM, International Trade Finance, Training and Development activities, Branch operation management and also worked as Branch manager in different branch offices and retired from the position of Deputy Chief Officer. At present, he is Founder and Chairman of Jagriti Academy Secondary School, Kathmandu Metropolitan city- 32, Koteshwor.

Binod Bhatta holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology. He has been working as the project manager for Community Participation for Education and Child Protection (CPECP) project implemented by Global Action Nepal at Shankharapur municipality, Kathmandu. He manages the project activities in achieving the intended results by planning, implementing, monitoring activities, coordinating the stakeholders.

He has widespread professional work experience in the development sectors includes education, child protection, livelihood, health and nutrition.

Sujat Sharmanera works as the Project Manager for Sisters for Sisters' Education Project II in Global Action Nepal. He holds a Master's Degree in Sociology. His key role in the project is to manage the activities under Sisters for Sisters' project both in Lamjung and Surkhet districts. He has a decade long experience in teaching and development sector and a wide range of experience in working with youth volunteers.

Bindu Gurung holds a master’s degree in Environmental Science and currently works as M & E Officer in Lamjung for Sisters' for Sisters Education Project. Her key role is to support district team in monitoring, information gathering and documentations of qualitative and quantitative data to serve as the guide for decision making by the team and the project as a whole.

Yadav Prasad Bhusal works as the Education and Child Protection Focal Point for Partnership for Equity and Access in Kapilbastu (PEAK) project of Global Action Nepal. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education. His key role is to provide technical support in project intervention and handling child rights/protection issues. He has 16 years’ of experience in development sector with expertise on child rights and protection issues.

Khageshwari Bohara, a residence is Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur Farwest has master's degree in English literature from Ratna Rajya Campus, Kathmandu (TU affiliated). I like to look at myself as a genuine, thoughtful young lady. I’m a hard worker; I believe nothing is ever handed to you so you have to work hard to get it. I have a calm attitude. I don’t really show anger or sadness much I always smile because I’m optimistic about life.

She started working as a development worker from Oxfam Nepal in 2017 and is working as a Community Engagement and Leadership Coordinator at Global Action Nepal’s Sisters for Sisters Education Program-2 since April 2018.

Jagadish Lekhak is a Resource Trainer. He holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology. He is dedicated to the Community Participation for Education and Child Protection (CPECP) project, Shankharapur municipality, Kathmandu. His major responsibilities are to facilitate in conducting project activities, institutionalizing child clubs for its effective mobilization in schools for their participation including facilitating schools for creating child friendly teaching learning environment in early grades, and he is also responsible for creating community collaborative learning platform through strengthening community learning centers.

He has been in Global Action Nepal since January 2018. He has experience of working in various organizations of more than 10 years in the education related organizations.

Junu Gurung has been working as a Community Education Facilitator for Global Action Nepal (GAN). Her key role in GAN is to engage with child clubs and women’s group of the local community to empower them and to increase quality teacher’s networks to create learning community environment through ‘Teacher Mobile Clinic’.

Sharmila Maharjan has been working as the Admin and Finance Manager (AFM) at Global Action Nepal (GAN) since April 2018. As an AFM she has been involved in different projects of GAN like PEAK, CPECP, V4D, ICS and GAN mainstream. She has a decade long experience in admin and finance sector of national and international organizations.

Her major responsibilities are to facilitate and monitor project finance staffs, coordinating with donors’ finance team, facilitate audit and other administrative works.

Project Officer
Pujan Shakya is the project officer for Play for Change (PFC) project. He started his career in social services by connecting with the Nature Club and Global Action Nepal that has helped him to gain professional knowledge.