Mahendra Panta

Mahendra joined the Center’s
Asia office in 2012 as Office Manager and became the Senior Finance and
Office Manager in 2015. He oversees the administrative and financial operations of
the Center’s Nepal office, including accounting records, document filing
systems, relations with local vendors, human resources support, travel
arrangements and logistics for Center-sponsored events. Additionally, Mahendra serves as a key
liaison between the Center’s Nepal and New York offices, and between the Center
and local government entities, ensuring the office is in compliance with
all local financial regulations. He is responsible for leading the annual local
audit, managing the Nepal office and local program budgets, preparing budget
and expenditure reports, monitoring financial reports submitted by local
partners, and meeting local financial reporting deadlines on behalf of the
Center.

Before joining the Center, Mahendra worked with the International Center for Transitional
Justice (ICTJ) as the Administration and Finance Officer. Prior to that he
worked with Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, as the Finance
and Administrative Officer for USAID funding. He has also worked for
a grantee of Family Health International as the Administrative and Finance
Officer managing USAID funding, and for a DFID-funded Financial Management
Project (FMP) in the Ministry of Finance with the Government of Nepal, first as
an assistant administrator and then as a project accountant.

Mahendra completed his
post-graduate studies in Nepal at the Tribhuvan University’s School of
Management in 2002.

Mahendra’s native tongue is
Nepali, and he is fluent in Hindi.