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Asia Public Governance Forum

Managing the COVID-19 Crisis

Pradip Khatiwada

Chair at UINSPIRE Alliance

Mr. Pradip Khatiwada is the Chair at UINSPIRE Alliance—a net-

work of youth and young professionals’ platform in Science,

Engineering, Technology and Innovation (SETI) to accelerate

the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and

Climate Change in-line with SDGs and the SFDRR to sup-

port DRR policy and action at Local, National, Regional, and

Global level. He is also the founder and executive director of

a not for profit civic-tech company called Youth Innovation

Lab based in Nepal. At YI-Lab, he heads a group of young

people with the mission of bridging science to people and

policy through innovation.

He is recognized for his leadership on the anti-plastic bag

movement and getting legislation on plastic bags ban. He

headed Government of Nepal, National Planning Commis-

sion and Himalayan Climate Initiatives’ jointly led initiative

National Volunteering Program as the National Coordinator.

His leadership in DRR, science and technology is well recog-

nized for development cutting edge technical tools (Inc. an

Integrated Disaster Information Management System and

recently COVID19 platform) and various civic tools for the

Government of Nepal.

He has Post Graduation in Disaster Management and Live-

lihood from Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Masters in

International Relations and Diplomacy. He is the recipient

of the 2017 US department of states’ International Visitor

Leadership Program.