Mr Shakya is an Electrical engineer, a 1988 graduate from NIT, India, with post-graduate diploma from Norway and Master of Engineering from Nepal, a PhD researcher on electricity market design in Kathmandu University. He is currently the Managing Director of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) having worked 33 years in NEA. In 2017, he began NEA Engineering Company that became Nepal’s largest hydro-power consultant and served as Board director and Chairman of hydropower companies. He worked as director in different departments like Power Trade, System Planning and Plant Operation and finalized Master Plans for National Transmission System 2015, Nepal-India Cross-Border Interconnection Master Plan 2016 and Sustainable Distributed generation and Grid access for all SUDIGGAA 2017.