Ashish Shrestha is an Energy Specialist with the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). He manages the Integrated Electrification Strategies & Planning program, which supports countries with the preparation of national electrification plans and develops planning tools like the Global Electrification Platform.
He also serves as a technical expert for the Global Facility on Mini Grids, providing advisory and operational support to task teams on mini grid project design, as well as developing a geospatial portfolio planning approach for mini grid deployment.
Ashish leads the implementation of two of the World Bank’s flagship electricity access operations -- the Nigeria Electrification Project and the Nigeria Distributed Access Through Renewable Energy Scale-up (DARES) project.