Dr. Sushila Chatterjee Nepali a resident of Kathmandu, having forestry background or in community based natural resource management. She completed her PhD in 2012 from Institute of Forestry (IOF) Pokhara, Nepal looking at the “Perception of change and impact of conflict on local livelihoods in the buffer zone and Khata corridor, Bardia, Nepal.” She has contributed more 25 years working as community development specialist in natural resource and biodiversity conservation, conducting research and evaluation in the field of health, gender issues. In the field of evaluation, she has been exposed and trained in conducting evaluation using OECD DAC criteria and Impact Evaluation guidelines developed by World Bank using RCT tools. She has so far worked as a consultant for the past 19 years as a monitoring and evaluation team leader, facilitating management effectiveness evaluation of Protected Areas and develop plans and management information systems for WWF and government agencies. She has been an active team member as Gender and Livelihoods experts in developing National Biodiversity Action Plan 2014 and National Strategic Framework for Nature Conservation with several research work. Today she is not only involved in doing consultancy, research work but have started teaching as a visiting faculty for Agriculture and Forestry University, IOF, Kathmandu Forestry College and Department of Conflict, Peace and Development Studies in teaching Protected Area Management, Conflict Management in NRM and Conservation related topics for the past 10 years in both Bachelors and Masters degree program. Recently she has been involved as faculty for Future Generation, West Virginia teaching courses on Peace building and Women Empowerment. She is currently a Focal person for Commission of Ecosystem Management Nepal and member to IPBES Nepal team as expert. Having an extensive field knowledge and travelling more than 65 districts of Nepal have encouraged her to contribute in policy level to research and field level implementation of the programs in all level of NRM and development sectors. She has been awarded by international agencies WWF US 2001 Women in Conservation and WI HER LLC Salwa Harb Award 2021 for her contribution in conservation, women empowerment and gender promotion.