Ananda Raj Devkota is currently a PhD student at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. His PhD research explores the vulnerabilities of the rural households towards climatic and socio-economic changes. Prior to his PhD, he was engaged as researcher and monitoring and evaluation professional at different private consulting firms and international non-governmental organizations in Nepal. During his career as monitoring and evaluation professional he was engaged in various development projects relating to post-disaster reconstruction, building community resilience through biodiversity conservation and forest management, agriculture and food security, and agriculture market development.