Business

आदित्य झा

Canadian-Nepali entrepreneur and philanthropist; recipient of the Order of Canada

आङ छिरिङ शेर्पा

Founder of Asian Trekking, Nepal's oldest still-operating mountaineering and trekking company

आङ छिरिङ शेर्पा

Founder of Yeti Airlines and a leading figure in Nepal's aviation and hospitality industry

भाजुरत्न कंसकार

Trader and philanthropist who laid the foundations of the Jyoti Group; important figure in the revival of Theravada Buddhism in Nepal

भावना घिमिरे

First CEO of the Cricket Association of Nepal and current CEO of the Nepal Premier League's Lumbini Lions

विनोद चौधरी

Chairman of Chaudhary Group (CG Corp Global); Nepal's first billionaire

बिनोद पौडेल

Film producer and founder of Seven Seas Cinema, best known for producing Purna Bahadur Ko Sarangi

बिरेन्द्र बहादुर बस्नेत

Chairperson of Buddha Air; founded the Gatishil Loktantrik Party after the 2025 Gen Z protests

विश्वनाथ पौडेल

18th Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank

चन्द्र प्रसाद ढकाल

Co-founder and chairman of IME Group, and founder of Nepal's first remittance company

दावा स्टेभन शेर्पा

Mountaineer, entrepreneur, and environmentalist who leads Asian Trekking and Nepal's Eco Everest Expedition clean-up campaigns

कर्ण शाक्य

Hotel entrepreneur and conservationist who helped establish Nepal's first national park and saved the Garden of Dreams from demolition

करुणारत्न तुलाधर

Pioneer of Nepalese public transport who co-founded Nepal Transport Service, the country's first public bus service

कुलमान घिसिङ

Electrical engineer credited with ending Nepal's decades-long load-shedding crisis; later energy minister

लुपौरत्न तुलाधर

Co-founder of Nepal Transport Service, operator of the country's first regular public bus service

प्रवल गुरुङ

Nepalese-American fashion designer based in New York City, known for his eponymous label since 2009

पृथ्वीबहादुर पाँडे

Pioneering Nepali banker who founded Himalayan Bank, Nepal's first joint-venture commercial bank

Founder and CEO of Fusemachines; the first company founded by a Nepali-origin entrepreneur to list on NASDAQ

Nepali chef and runner-up on BBC's MasterChef: The Professionals (2020), credited with popularizing Nepali cuisine internationally

शेष घले

Nepali-Australian businessman and co-founder of the Melbourne Institute of Technology; former president of the Non-Resident Nepali Association

सुरेन्द्र बहादुर बस्नेत

Founder of Buddha Air, Nepal's leading domestic airline; former Supreme Court justice and government minister

उपेन्द्र महतो

Businessman and founding president of the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA)

युवराज खतिवडा

Veteran economist who served as Nepal Rastra Bank Governor, Finance Minister, and Ambassador to the United States