Anil Raghuvanshi

Founder/President

Anil Raghuvanshi is a seasoned child rights professional with more than 29 years of experience in the field of child protection at UN agencies and international organizations. He had launched the Stop.Think.Connect movement in Nepal and was instrumental in starting the Safer Internet Day campaign in Nepal. He has led acclaimed research studies on child protection at the international level, including research studies on emerging cyber safety issues.

He had served as a child protection professional in nine Asian, African, European and Caribbean countries. Earlier, he had worked with Unicef Nigeria as the Child Protection in Emergencies Manager and was responsible for managing the programme to protect children from Boko Haram emergency. Furthermore, Anil had served as the Child Protection Team Leader at the UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur (Sudan). Moreover, while working as the Deputy Director at ECPAT International, he contributed inputs to the UN Secretary General's Study on Violence against Children (2006) and managed the "make-IT-safe" campaign for the protection of children from sexual exploitation online. He has an MBA degree from Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Pushkar Mathema

Vice-President

Rajesh Aryal

General Secretary

Riju Shrestha

Secretary

Pushkar Mathema, a resident of the central Kathmandu, has more than 30 years of experience as a journalist with the first and the state-owned daily newspaper, Gorkhapatra. He served twice as the Acting Chief Editor of the Gorkhapatra daily. He also served as the Acting Chief Editor of The Rising Nepal, the English daily, published by Gorkhapatra Corporation.  Also, he served as the Chief Editor of Yuwa Manch and Muna, Gorkhapatra Corporation's monthly magazines for youth and children, respectively. He also served as the coordinator of www.gorkhapatraonline.com. He has written over 1,500 features and reports in various newspapers and magazines and has translated books. He was awarded the Pradhan Journalism Award (2015) and Environmental Journalism Award (1995).

Pushkar, an MBA and a seasoned media expert and trainer has also served as a media and communication consultant for various UN agencies and international organizations. He has a deep interest in theatre and is a well-recognized figure in the field of acting and direction. He has bagged a number of awards as the best actor and best director.

 

Rajesh Aryal is a resident of Kathmandu. He holds a bachelor's degree from Luther College, Iowa, USA in Business Administration and Political Science in 1991, an MBA from Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA in 1994 and a master's degree from Clark University in 2006 in International Development and Social Change.

He has 23 years of international development experience providing effective support to country programmes in programme design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, conducting various advocacy campaigns, strengthening financial management, and operational and grant award management functions in Kosovo, the US, Afghanistan, Liberia, and Nigeria. He also has extensive experience in implementing fair and credible elections in different countries and implementing various civic voter education advocacy campaigns targeting youth, women, and persons with disabilities for more space in the political space and representation.  

 

Riju Shrestha, born in Kirtipur, Nepal, has a master’s degree in Social Work with a major in Mental Health and Psychosocial counselling. She believes that children and young people should be able to consume the internet in a way that benefits them. She is highly committed as the Secretary at ChildSafenet. She uses her experience and familiarity with the digital domain to play her part in making the internet a safer place for children and young people. She also heads Red Circle Creative Solutions, a digital marketing agency as the CEO and specializes in content creation.

Parit Shrestha

Treasurer

Jasmine Rajbhandari

Executive Member

Ladina (Joshi) Maskay

Executive Member

Parit Shrestha, a resident of Kathmandu, was raised and educated in India. He is an expert in computer motion graphics and digital marketing. He has a bachelor’s degree in Management from India and is the founder and the first CEO of a digital marketing company Red Circle Creative Solutions. Parit has expertise in motion graphics and in digital marketing. He is soft-spoken and has very good people skills. Parit is an accomplished guitarist and an aspiring singer/composer.

 

Jasmine Rajbhandary was born in Lesotho and grew up in various parts of Africa and the United States, as a “UN child”. She completed her Bachelor’s in Economics and Sociology from Binghamton University in New York. After completing her master’s in International Development from American University in Washington DC she returned to Nepal in 1997. Since then she has worked for human rights NGOs, Save the Children, DFID and now the World Bank. Her career has been focused on working with vulnerable communities, children, women, and with helping in developing processes and services for their inclusion in development and improving their life outcomes.

At the World Bank, she is a Senior Social Protection Specialist and she leads on World Bank projects which help Nepal’s government to provide more efficient social protection services such as the social security allowances and in helping the government address the youth jobs agenda. She also works in Bhutan and India.

 

Ladina (Joshi) Maskay, born in Kathmandu, Nepal, has a bachelor’s degree in Management from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. She has 26 years of experience in administration and management and has worked with national and international organizations in Nepal. She often dedicates her time as a social worker. She is actively engaged with ChildSafeNet as an executive member.