Chair from January 2013 – October 2014. Prakash Mathema was Joint Secretary (Tech.), Chief of Climate Change Management Division, National Focal Point to UNFCCC, based at Nepal’s Ministry of Science, Technology & Environment. He has over 20 years of experience in the fields of forestry, watershed management and policy planning.
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