Dr. Shankar Shrestha

Senior Research Specialist (Water & Environment)

Dr. Shrestha is the Executive Director of NDRI since February 2022. He has a PhD (Engineering) in Integrated River Basin Management and a Postdoc from the University of Yamanashi, Japan. He has more than 10 years of interdisciplinary research experience in the areas of water, agriculture and environment. Specifically, his research has covered areas of water and crop quality assessment, wastewater irrigation issues, vegetable consumers’ health risk assessment, solid waste management, climate risk assessment, flood risk assessment and non-point source pollution modeling, among others. 

Dr. Shrestha is the recipient of “The WET Excellent Presentation Award” at the Water and Environment Technology Conference 2016, August 28, 2016 at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan for his research on health risk assessment from the use of contaminated water. Dr. Shrestha is also a Guest Reviewer of various national and international journals (anonymous).