Designation: Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Dr. Roshan Shrestha is associated with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a Deputy Director, Global Growth and Opportunity Division, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WSH) team. Dr. Shrestha is leading the WSH initiative in Asia, which is investing to contribute achieving SDG 6.2 - in scaling inclusive safely managed sanitation services in South and South-East Asia. He is associated with the foundation since 2012. Before joining the Gates Foundation, Dr. Shrestha was associated with UN-Habitat working with different disciplines like Regional Technical Advisor – South Asia and Settlement Improvement Advisor. He has more than three decades of working experience in the water and sanitation sector with long field experience in planning, designing, and execution of decentralized water and wastewater water management, and sustainable sanitation programs. Dr. Shrestha holds a Doctoral degree in Applied Natural Science from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.