President of NAM and Chair of the Conference Prof. Dr. Dev Raj Adhikari is dean of Faculty of Management at Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He is the founding President of Nepalese Academy of Management, Chairman of Nepal Bank Limited (the oldest bank of Nepal), Chairman of National Insurance Corporation and advisors of many business colleges of Nepal and abroad. He has been involved in various researches on human resource management, institutional development, knowledge management, strategic Management and organizational behavior for the last 20 years. He received post doctoral degree (1999-2000) from the Department of Human Resource Management, University of Innsbruck, Austria. He worked as Visiting Professor at Michael G. DeGroote School of Business Administration, McMaster University, Canada, in 2001 and worked as visiting Researcher (July 2004- March 2005), at Japan Institute of Labour Policy and Training, Tokyo, Japan. He is an official representative of Cranet- Network to Nepal. Recipient of North-South-Dialogue Fellowship- Austria, 1989, Research fellowship from European Academy- Bolzano and Institute of Public Sector Management, 1999, Mahendra Bidhaya Bhushan 'Ka' from His Majesty King Birendra, 1993, and “outstanding performance” award in the auspicious occasion of 49th anniversary of Tribhuvan University, 2008, Professor Adhikari published many research articles in National and International journals.