Dr. Rudra Suwal

Lead/Coordinator, Economic Development Program

Rudra Suwal is an  Economist and Statistician of Nepal. He has over three decades of experience working at Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Nepal. While at CBS, he has profoundly assisted the Government of Nepal (GoN) in providing and analyzing  official statistics as a government statistician. He had joined the CBS in 1988 and retired as Deputy Director General (DDG) and Head of the Social Statistics Division in 2018.  As the Division Chief and Program Coordinator, Suwal provided strategic, technical and managerial leadership in various statistical projects/activities, such as Nepal Earthquake Housing Reconstruction Survey, Nepal Labor Force Survey, Annual Household Survey, Nepal Living Standard Survey, Gender and Social Statistics, Nepal Multiple Cluster Indicator Survey, GIS and Data Processing,  Population Census and Demographic Sample Survey,  Environmental Statistics etc. Also, in the capacity of Director /Manager of the Population and Housing Census (PHC), 2011, he served as the Program Chief and Coordinator, and provided leadership throughout the stages of census planning, field operation, data processing, analysis and dissemination of census results. He worked in macroeconomic accounting and analysis (national accounts), government finance statistics. Suwal has extensive experience in the areas of Census survey operations, economic and demographic analysis, operational research, analysis and interpretation of macroeconomic statistics in policy analysis.

Even after retiring from CBS, in the private capacity, as an Expert Advisor/Consultant, Suwal  is extending his services to various government institutions, non-government organizations and multilateral institutions. AS a consultant statistician, he was a member of the team that prepared Nepal Human Development Reports 2004, 2009 and 2014 and 2019. As a Consultant, he also worked at Asian Development Bank (ADB) on macroeconomic update with the focus on 'unleashing the potential of trade in services' in Nepal. Likewise, as an Expert Consultant, he also worked with The World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Computation/Analysis of human development index, Social Inclusion Index, and Socioeconomic Mapping. 

Suwal has authored/co-authored numerous articles, research papers, and books. He holds Ph.D. in Economics from Lucknow University, India and Masers degree in Economics from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He has also received PG Diploma in Economic Statistics from ISPC (US Census Bureau), and in Methods of Economic Research course from University of East Anglia (UEA, UK). Mr. Suwal is fluent in Nepali, English and Hindi.