| Introduction |
| Name |
Post |
Time-Duration |
| Gyan Bahadur Tamang |
Executive Director |
January 2003 |
"It gives me great pleasure to greet you from UCSS as the new Executive Director. The opportunities to make use of UCSS's unique mission and comparative advantages are great as well as humbling. We are a regional knowledge institution. We can and must work across national and disciplinary boundaries to share research results, application skills, and tools for information management. We can make sure that these shared solutions translate into real policy advice and real grass roots' results. We must ensure that we respect the diversity of ecological, administrative, and cultural conditions in which we need to adapt solutions to our own mountain problems. We have to listen carefully to our mountain clients, build on their knowledge and innovations, and continue our own learning so that we can continue to offer them our best assessments - combining their knowledge with scientific advances across the world. We will strive to communicate these solutions in languages that are readily understood; and this means using our regional languages for grass roots' transmission and coming up with clear policy options for state and national decision-makers.
I am confident that, with the help of all our partners, we can move to a better mountain world that nurtures both mountain people and our downstream neighbors." |
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