List of participants Foreign participants

S.N Name Country Contact

[email protected] 1. Associate Professor Anoop Singh Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur

2. Ashok Mehta Independent Analyst India [email protected]

Research Officer 3. Dharshani Premaratne Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka [email protected]

Gaurav Shukla CUTS International 4. India [email protected]

Deputy Chief Superintendent Ismail Nashid 5. Commissioner General's Office [email protected] Senior Research Associate Kishore Kumer Basak Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) 6. [email protected]

Head, Centre for Resources Management, Lydia Powell 7. India Observer Research Foundation [email protected] Director (Program, Research and Policy Advocacy) Mostafa Abid Khan 8. Bangladesh Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute (BFTI) [email protected] Chief Executive Officer Muhammad Adil Khattak Attock Refinery Limited 9. [email protected]

Professor Indian Council for Research on International Nisha Taneja 10. India Economic Relations (ICRIER), [email protected]

Senior Fellow and Professor Research and Information System for Developing Prabir De 11. India Countries (RIS) [email protected]

Professor Research and Information System for Developing Ram Upendra Das 12. India Countries (RIS) [email protected]

Assistant Director Rubiya Binta Mustafiz 13. Bangladesh Keystone Business Support Company Limited [email protected]

ICRIER Sanjana Joshi 14. India [email protected]

Professor Selim Raihan University of Dhaka 15. Bangladesh [email protected] Founder President Bangladesh Women's Chamber of Commerce and Selima Ahmad 16. Bangladesh Industry [email protected]

Visiting Faculty Somnath Mitra Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) 17. India Faculty of Management Studies [email protected] Director Udai Singh Mehta CUTS International 18. India [email protected]

Deputy Executive Director Vaqar Ahmed Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), 19. Pakistan [email protected]

Chairman Zaidi Sattar 20. Bangladesh Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh (PRI) [email protected] Former President Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Zubair Ahmad 21. Pakistan Industry (FPCCI), [email protected] Local participants

S.N Name Contact

Federation of Nepal Cottage and Small Industries 1. Tej Prasad Dhakal (FNCSI) [email protected]

Associate Professor 2. Bimala Shakya Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus [email protected]

Former Secretary 3. Purushottam Ojha Ministry of Commerce and Supplies [email protected]

Joint Secretary 4. Nirmal R. Kafle Ministry of Foreign Affairs [email protected]

FES 5. Dev Raj Dahal [email protected]

Reporter 6. Samuel Rana Magar Artha ko Artha [email protected] Executive Director Federation of Nepal Cottage and Small Industries 7. Hem Kumar Rai (FNCSI) [email protected] EIF National Program Manager 8. Buddhi Upadhyay Ministry of Commerce and Supplies [email protected]

Freelance Researcher 9. Krishna P. Pant [email protected]

SAWTEE 10. Nav Raj Dahal [email protected]

Republica 11. Rudra Pangeni [email protected]

Assistant Professor 12. Anushree Paul Symbiosis School of Economics, India [email protected]

Assistant Professor 13. Anwesha Aditya Indian Institute of Technology, India [email protected]

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), India 14. Shahana Mukharjee [email protected]

PhD Scholar, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum 15. Anirban Kundu [email protected]

Project Manager 16. Murari P. Gautam Nepal-India Regional Trade and Transport Project [email protected] Senior Advisor 17. Peter Richter Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) [email protected]

Ministry of Commerce 18. Manoj Kumar Roy Bangladesh

Assistant Director 19. Sumann Neupane Nepa Rastra Bank [email protected]

Research Fellow 20. Wajid H. Shah Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) [email protected]

Staff College 21. Sagar Dodhia [email protected]

Shanta Banskota 22. [email protected] Koirala

23. Bhawani Prasad Kharel [email protected]

Director General Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) 24. Hemant Dabadi [email protected]

25. Sudeep Bajracharya SAWTEE 26. Ashok Thapa Business 360

27. Ram Tamrakar [email protected]

Former Minister 28. Dipak Gyawali Water Resources [email protected]

29. Ram Nepali [email protected]

30. Kamal B.K. [email protected]

Managing Editor 31. Keshab Paudel Spotlight [email protected]

Senior Reporter Nepal Television 32. Pradeep Chapagain [email protected]

Executive Director 33. Ishwari P. Ghimire Trade and Export Promotion Center [email protected]

34. Rameshwor Timalsena [email protected] The Annapurna Post 35. Yubaraj Ghimire [email protected]

Journalist 36. Gunja Khadka [email protected]

Business Reporter 37. Asish Gyawali The Annapurna Post [email protected]

Managing Director 38. Hridaya Raj Gautam Artha ko Artha [email protected]

Consultant 39. Kishore Maharjan SAWTEE [email protected]

Senior Correspondent 40. Pushpa Acharya The Himalayan Times [email protected]

Senior Economist 41. Binod Karmacharya [email protected]

Managing Director 42. Pradeep K. Shrestha Panchakanya Group [email protected]

43. Shyam P. Giri [email protected] Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) 44. Bishnu Prasad Adhikari [email protected]

Student 45. Paras Kharel St. Hida’s College, Australia [email protected]

President 46. Rajan Sharma Nepal Freight Forwarders Association [email protected]

Under Secretary 47. Mina Aryal Ministry of Commerce nd Supplies [email protected] Senior Vice President SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry 48. Suraj Vaidya [email protected]

Chief technical advisor SAARC-TPN GIZ 49. Gerald Duda Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) [email protected]

Assistant Director 50. Anup K Shrestha FNCCI [email protected]

Member 51. Urmila Joshi SAWTEE [email protected]

Deputy Director 52. Surendra Gongal TEPC [email protected] Senior Vice President 53. Shyam Giri Federation of Nepal Cottage and Small Industries (FNCSI) [email protected] Former Chairperson SAARC Chamber Women Entrepreneurs Council (SCWEC) 54. Pramila Rijal [email protected]

Under Secretary 55. Shankar Prasad Poudel Ministry of Commerce and Supplies [email protected] Chairman Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRAD) 56. Pushpa R. Rajkarnikar [email protected]

NTM Desk Officer 57. Ayush Siddhi Confederation of Nepalese Industry [email protected]

SAWTEE 58. Prakash Ghimire [email protected]

Under Secretary 59. Rabi S. Sainju National Planning Commission [email protected]

60. Govinda R. Pokhrel Vice Chairperson, National Planning Commission [email protected]

Bishwambher Professor Emeritus, Tribhuwan University 61. Pyakuryal [email protected] 62. Reshma Pandey [email protected]

Federation of Nepal Cottage and Small Industries 63. Hari Har Thapa (FNCSI) [email protected]

Nepal Administrative Staff College 64. Rajendra Adhikari [email protected]

65. Khagendra Awasthi [email protected]

66. Keshab Bahadur Bam [email protected]

67. Ram Nepali [email protected]

68. Ballab Bhu [email protected]

Member 69. Swarnim Wagle National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal [email protected]

President, Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and 70 Pradeep Jung Pandey Industry (FNCCI) [email protected] Mahendra Bahadur 71 Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government of Nepal Pandey [email protected]

72 Posh Raj Pandey SAWTEE

73 Hiramani Ghimire SAWTEE

74 Puspa Sharma SAWTEE

74 Asish Subedi SAWTEE