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Ramji is working as a freelance Development Consultant since 2022. He was instrumental in institutionalizing the enterprise development into government system by providing Technical Assistance (from 2018 to 2021) to the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Government of Nepal to implement Micro Enterprise Development for Poverty Alleviation (MEDPA), a national Program implemented in all 753 Municipalities of Nepal. During 2014-2018, he led the Micro-Enterprise Development Program (MEDEP) as the National Project Manager (NPM) promoting entrepreneurship development in Nepal. He worked with International Alert Nepal as Director of Programme during January 2013 to February 2014. Prior to Alert, he worked with Canadian CIDA as Program Coordinator and Advisor in development and implementation of Canadian development aid programs in Nepal for well over a decade (2001-2012).

Ramji served with United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) as a UN Volunteer to help implement the Cambodian peace process during 1992/1993. He served as the founder Chairperson of Kathmandu Forestry College an affiliate of Tribhuban University for 2 full terms (6 Years) and was involved in teaching and research with Kathmandu University, and College of Development Studies, Purwanchal University as an external faculty member. Ramji holds a Ph.D. (in Regional and Rural Development Planning) & M. Sc. (Agriculture Systems) Degrees from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. He has more than 25 years of professional experiences with different development organizations inside and outside of Nepal in natural resources management, enterprise/local economic development, governance, conflict transformation and peace building. He has obtained formal training on conflict transformation and peace building from the Responding to Conflict, UK and School of International Training, USA. He is involved in networks and organizations both inside the country and in Asian region for peacebuilding.