Reshu Bashyal is a Conservation Biologist with a focus on wildlife trade research and policy implications. She has an interdisciplinary profile, having worked in areas as diverse as project management of illegal wildlife trade challenge fund-supported project, and capacity development in UNDP, as well as an Environmentalist at the Ministry. Reshu holds two MSc degrees (MSc in Environmental Science from CDES-TU and MSc in Conservation and International Wildlife Trade from DICE-Kent, UK as a Chevening Scholar) and is passionate about conserving plants, fungi, and other species threatened due to excessive use in traditional medicines.