Ad-Hoc Committee
The current governing body of the NaYAN is the Ad-Hoc Committee unanimously selected by the meeting of young scientists held on 28 December 2019. A new executive committee elected by the next general assembly will replace the current ad-hoc committee.
Members of Ad-Hoc Committee:
Bal Kumari Oliya, Ph.D.
Plant ScienceTribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Basant Giri, Ph.D. (Chair)
Analytical ChemistryKathmandu Institute of Applied Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal
Bishesh Khanal, Ph.D.
Artificial IntelligenceNAAMII, Kathmandu, Nepal
Sagar Regmi, Ph.D.
Material ScienceTribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Smrittee Kala Panta, Ph.D.
Social ScienceSamriddhi Agriculture Research and Development Pvt. Ltd.
Suraj Bhattarai, MD
Medical Science/Global HealthGlobal Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS), Kathmandu, Nepal
Uttam Babu Shrestha, Ph.D.
Environmental ScienceGlobal Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS), Kathmandu, NepalThe meeting that selected the ad-hoc committee was attened by following 22 Nepali young scientists.
Achyut Tiwari
Ashim Dhakal
Balkumari Oliya
Basant Giri
Bhanu Neupane
Bikram Acharya
Binod Bhattarai
Bishesh Khanal
Bishnu Marasini
Danda Pani Poudel
Devi Prasad Ojha
Dibas Shrestha
Homnath Luitel
Narayan Koju
Sagar Regmi
Smriti Kala Pant
Subash Adhikari
Suraj Bhattarai
Susma Giri
Ujjawal Kushwaha
Uttam Babu Shrestha (online)
Yadav Joshi
Group photo after the meeting on 28th December 2019
The above meeting followed several informal and formal meetings among the interested Nepali young scientists. Some formal meetings are mentioned below.
The first formal meeting was held on September 06, 2019 at Durbarmarg, Kathmandu. The meeting was attended by following 16 scientists.
Achyut Adhikari
Annada Rajbhandari
Ashim Dhakal
Basant Giri
Bhanu Neupane
Bishesh Khanal
Debal Prasad Bhattarai
Hari Poudel
Homnath Luitel
Khem Raj Shrestha
Krishna Devkota
Madan Kumar Pokharel
Pranil MS Pradhan
Raunak Shrestha
Suraj Bhattarai
Uttam Babu Shrestha
Participants of first formal meeting
Second formal meeting was held at Radisson Hotel, Kathmandu on 22nd October 2019. This meeting was attended by following 11 participants.
Dipendra Gautam, Prativa Pandey, Sujata Shrestha, Meena Suwal, Achyut Tiwari, Bishesh Khanal, Suraj Bhattarai, Uttam Babu Shrestha, Meghnath Dhimal, Bhanu Neupane and Basant Giri.
Group photo after the meeting
