Dipak Gyawali is the Chairperson of Interdisciplinary Analysts (IDA). He is also Pragya (Academician) of Nepal Academy of Science and Technology and guest senior research scholar with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. He conducts interdisciplinary research at technology-society interface from perspectives of Cultural Theory. A hydroelectric power engineer (Moscow Energy Institute) and a political economist (UC Berkeley, CA), he served as Nepal’s Minister of Water Resources in 2002/03 and initiated community electricity.

He has also chaired or served in advisory boards and review missions of various international organizations including EU’s water research review between FP4 to FP6, UNESCO’s International Hydrological Program IHP-6, UNESCO IHE-Delft, Coca Cola’s  international environmental advisory board, US Pacific Northwest National Lab, Myanmar’s Ayeyarwadi IRBM, Mekong River Commission, World Bank’s Inspection Panel, Stockholm International Water Institute, UNESCO’s World Water Assessment Program and IDS Sussex’s STEPs Center. 

Sudhindra Sharma is the Executive Director of IDA. He has been with IDA and has guided it since its inception in 1996. He is a Sociologist by training and has over twenty years of experience working in research and development in Nepal, Afghanistan, India, Finland, and Thailand. 

Dr. Sharma has led over 20 nationwide surveys in Nepal on community development, economics, governance, and political economy. He directed the Nepal Contemporary Political Situation (NCPS) series, a longitudinal political opinion survey conducted from 2004 to 2015. His other major works include the Public Safety and Security Survey (2007–2011), Business Climate Survey (2010–2011), six USAID-funded Sajhedari Bikaas surveys (2013–2017), and The Survey of Nepali People (2017–2018) under the DFAT-TAF partnership. He authored Procuring Water: Foreign Aid and Rural Water Supply in Nepal (2001) and co-edited Aid Under Stress (2004), along with contributing to policy papers from the University of Helsinki.

In 2009, Dr. Sharma was awarded a Docent in Development Studies at the University of Helsinki and has since supervised PhD candidates there. He earned his PhD from the University of Tampere, Finland, in 2001, and his Master’s from Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, in 1992. His international research experience includes roles as a visiting scholar at the German Development Institute (Bonn), Institute of Development Studies (Helsinki), Center for the Study of Developing Societies (Delhi), and the Institute of Asian Studies (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok).

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Bal Krishna Khadka is a Statistical Consultant at IDA. Over the past 10 years at IDA, he has been involved in data analysis of numerous survey and research studies for various INGOs, bilateral donors, and government agencies. In 2007, Khadka started as a Researcher at IDA and since 2013, he has been involved as a Statistical Consultant. His expertise lies in survey design, sampling design, survey data management, survey data analysis, and report writing.  He is a co-author of Business Climate Survey in Nepal, Nepal Contemporary Political Situation (VI, VII and VIII, and Data Analysis and Modeling.

He holds a distinction in Master’s degree in Statistics from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He also has more than 10 years of teaching experience at graduate and undergraduate degree programs in different universities. Since 2013, he is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Kathmandu University where he teaches fundamentals of statistics, applied statistics, data analysis for managerial decisions, and quantitative techniques.  

Hiranya Baral is a Human Resource Manager at IDA. He has almost ten years of experience in recruiting well-qualified supervisors and enumerators for surveys, and designing and undertaking various trainings for them. He also has extensive experience in managing survey fieldwork and in undertaking spot-checks and back-checks during the fieldwork to ensure overall data quality. He has managed over 20 surveys like the nationwide public opinion surveys, different baseline, mid-line, and end line surveys for various clients.

Prior to his position as Field Manager at IDA in 2010, Hiranya has worked as a supervisor with IDA for several research projects. He holds a Masters’ degree in Business Studies from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. 

Manju Koirala is a Finance Manager at IDA. She has been with IDA since 2009 and has over ten years of demonstrated experience in preparing financial proposals while bidding for research and consulting assignments.  She also has wide range of experiences in preparing budget and monthly payrolls, and ensuring tax compliance along with other financial regulations.

Manju holds a Masters’ degree in Management with specialization in finance and investment analysis from Tribhuwan University. She is also currently pursuing her Masters’ Degree in Management from Tribhuvan University. 

Chandra K.C. is a Data Manager at IDA. Chandra has over eight years of extensive experience in developing survey design, sampling design, survey data management, and survey data analysis. He specializes in designing software for data entry in CSPro and in data cleaning. Chandra also has a demonstrated history of working with software like the CS-Pro, SPSS, STAT, R, ODK, and GIS-related technologies.

Chandra is a gold medalist and holds a distinction in Master’s in Statistics from Tribhuvan University. He has also been teaching Statistics at Trichandra College, St. Xavier’s College, and Asian College of Management and Technology. 

Pankaj Pokhrel is a Research Manager at IDA. He has a strong knowledge of economic analysis and possesses skill-set in mathematics, statistics, and econometrics. Pankaj specializes in quantitative research and has demonstrated experience in formulating survey questionnaire, data management, data cleaning and analysis, and report writing. His interest lies in econometric analysis. He is also passionate about working in R programming for statistical data analysis.

Prior to joining IDA, he was working as a Research Intern in Government of Nepal’s Local Bodies Fiscal Commission.  He holds a Masters’ degree in Economics from Tribhuvan University. 

Dinesh Dongol is a Software Programming Consultant at IDA. His strength lies in developing electronic data collection tool using different platforms such as Open Data Kit (ODK), CS-Pro, and Qualtrics. At IDA, he develops software programs for survey research projects in mobile data collection platform to be administered through android tablets and provides training to other staff and field supervisors and enumerators about use and application of the software programs.

Dinesh also has experience in managing facilities for server hosting and providing inputs in data cleaning and labelling. 

Rabina Thapa is a Research Associate at IDA who has an interest in agricultural, natural resource, and environmental economics and econometrics. She holds a master's degree from the Central Department of Economics at Tribhuvan University and possesses great qualitative and quantitative understanding. She previously worked as a research assistant, acquiring qualitative information while doing FDGs, in-depth interviews, and report writing.

She has proficiency in STATA, SPSS, and the ODK platform, in addition to statistical skills.

Himal Khanal is a Statistical Research Associate at IDA. Himal has three years of experience in data management and survey data analysis and data reporting. He has knowledge of working in SPSS, Excel, and GIS related software.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Statistics from Tribhuvan University. He has also been teaching research methodology at Platinum College.

Sandeep Thapa is an IT Associate at IDA. He has more than five years of experience in designing and developing android applications and desktop applications for data collection. He has a strong knowledge of various analytical software such as Stata and SPSS. At IDA, he designs and develops applications for data collections, provides technical user-support services, maintains and updates databases, and data analysis.

Sapana Gautam is a Finance and Administration Assistant at IDA. She has a good knowledge in addressing the day-to-day financial needs of the organization, preparing vouchers, journals and cheques, depositing TDS and VAT in the relevant Inland Revenue Department office. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Study (BBS). She is also proficient in Microsoft Office particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint. 

Dilli Prasad Baral is an office Assistant at Interdisciplinary Analysts.

Krishna Gopal Sedia is a Senior Office Driver at IDA. Since his association with IDA in 2011, Krishna has been driving office vehicles with safety as the utmost concern, repairing and maintaining office vehicles. Krishna is also experienced at providing logistics support in the field. During office hours, he perform the role as receptionist cum secretary.  

Swabhiman Tamang is Office Driver. Swabhiman has been associated with IDA since 2017. His responsibilities include driving the office vehicle with safety as the utmost concern and maintaining the office vehicle in good condition. He also provides logistics support in the field. During office hours, he performs the role as receptionist cum secretary.