Dr Posh Raj Pandey is Chair Emeritus, South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE), Nepal. Dr Pandey has more than 25 years of experience working on issues of trade, economy and development.
Earlier, Dr Pandey served as a Senior Advisor at the Ministry of Finance, Federal Government of Nepal.
Dr Pandey has also served as a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Technology Bank. He is listed as an Indicative Panellist of the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO). He is a member of various committees of the Government of Nepal, including the Board of Trade and the Nepal Business Forum.
Dr Pandey has also served as an Economic Expert on the Prime Minister’s Advisory Board and was a member of the National Planning Commission. He was one of the negotiators for Nepal’s accession to the WTO. Dr. Pandey has also worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Nepal on issues related to multilateral trade integration and trade-related capacity building.
He was a faculty member at the Central Department of Economics, Tribhuvan University, and has extensively published on issues of international trade, macroeconomics, and development. He holds a PhD in Economics and master’s degrees in Business Management and Economics