Mr. Shankar Man Shrestha is the Chairman and the founder Executive Director of the Centre for Self-help Development (CSD). Mr. Shrestha is a microfinance expert with more than five decades experience in the rural finance industry and the promoter and advocator of clean microfinance campaign in Nepal. He worked as the Chief Executive Officer in the Rural Microfinance Development Center from August 1999 to April 2014. He had also worked in the Agricultural Development Bank in various capacities such as Deputy General Manager, Director of Agricultural Credit Training Institute, Chief of Credit Department, Regional Manager, etc. He has also served as the Chairman of the Centre for Rural Technology (CRT) Nepal and the Board Director of Nepal Banking Institute (NBI). He has an M.A. degree in Economics from T.U. and was a special student of Agricultural Economics at the Texas A&M University, USA. He has long and rich experience of organizing and facilitating microfinance seminars, conferences, summits, workshops and training programs. He has written several articles, reports and papers on rural and microfinance which were published in journals and magazines within the country and abroad.