Sujata Manandhar is a climate change consultant at the World Bank. She has extensive working experience in climate change adaptation, climate change services, disaster risk reduction, and community-based natural/water resources management in Canada, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, and Kyrgyzstan. She received her Ph.D. in Integrated River Basin Management from the University of Yamanashi, Japan, and her master's in Natural Resources Management from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.