A Fulbright Scholar and MBA graduate from Emory University, Sanjana Chhantyal utilizes her finance and investment analysis expertise to organize training workshops for early-stage entrepreneurs, with a particular focus on women and youth entrepreneurs. She is the co-founder of the Stree-Shakti Project, which aims to encourage and prepare young women to take on leadership roles in Nepal’s Energy sector by increasing access to information, mentorship and networking opportunities. She has conducted training sessions for young Nepali women on Circular Economy, Entrepreneurship, Clean Energy, Innovation, and raising equity investment.
Sanjana also founded the Next Steps Project: she designed a higher education research toolkit and has conducted mentorship sessions in schools and colleges to help students, especially young girls and first-generation students, to make informed academic decisions. She is a member of the UN Women Asia and the Pacific’s 30 for 2030 Youth Network, USAID Youth Excel’s Global Youth Advisory Council and serves as the YSP Deputy Project Lead at SDSN-Youth, program of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
