Ms Pasang Dolma SHERPA

Executive Director , Center for Indigenous Peoples' Research and Development ( CIPRED)

Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Executive Director of Center for Indigenous Peoples' Research & Development (CIPRED) has been working with Indigenous Peoples, Women and Local Communities for the promotion and recognition of the traditional knowledge, cultural values and customary institutions that contributed for natural resource management, climate change resilience and sustainable development for more than a decade both at national and international levels. Ms. Sherpa has obtained her PhD at Kathmandu University in 2018 on Climate Change Education and its Interfaces with Indigenous Knowledge. Ms. Sherpa has served as Co-Chair of Facilitative Working Group of Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples’ Platform (LCIP) as one of the constituent bodies of  United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and as board member & observer to the UN-REDD and FCPF of World Bank for 6 years.