Arti is from Naya bazaar, Kathmandu, where she lives with her mother, father, sister and her dog, Haku – who will join her in Birendranagar as soon as air traffic allows!
Arti has a Bachelor in Business administration from Prime College, affiliated with Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu. Arti studied for her Master’s in International Management at the University of Northampton in the UK, and she lived in North Hampton for a year before living in Milton Keynes for three years while completing her thesis.
Arti started working for Niras Nepal country office already in 2016, with a break during the pandemic.
You might not have known this about Arti, but she is also an entrepreneur – during the pandemic she started an online baby clothes store together with a friend!
Apart from liking numbers, Arti likes to dance, loves drawing and coloring cartoons, enjoys hiking and has traveled quite extensively in Nepal.
Arti was the first to find a home for her and Haku and with work on the house ongoing, she is hoping to move in already next week.
Quick interview with Arti
What is your title?
Chief Administrative and Finance Officer
What does that mean?
I take care of the office, logistics and finance of the SusWA project.
What has the hardest part of your job been so far?
Being new to Surkhet it is difficult to find the best vendors – learning the market and how it works here takes time. For example, vendors may not have bank accounts, quotations are written for hand in Nepali, and so on, very different from Kathmandu. But I will get used to it soon!
What is the best part of your job?
I love calculating and numbers, I am looking forward to learning from Salla and I’m excited to work with the government and learn more about Sutra as it is new to me.
Arti’s choices (in bold)
- Dal Bhat or Momo
- Tea with sugar or tea without sugar
- Walking or Tempo (three-wheeler) – This depends on the mood!
