My Story

Badri Kumar Guragain is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Cooperative Bank Limited (NCBL), with over 18 years of experience in finance, strategic planning, management, consulting, and development. His leadership has strengthened Nepal’s cooperative banking landscape, fostering institutional growth and financial governance.

Mr. Guragain specializes in business strategy, capacity building, performance improvement, and policy development. He holds a master’s degree in management and is a Chartered Accountant (CA) from both India and Nepal. He is the first Nepalese CA to complete specialized managerial training from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs).

He has held key roles such as Senior Technical Advisor at IPPF South Asia, Deputy General Manager at NCBL, Finance Director at FPAN, CEO at NEFSCUN, and Deputy Director at ICAN. He also serves as a Board Member of the Nepal Accounting Standards Board and an Advisor to Nepal’s Social Security Fund. He also Serves as a Member of Quality Assurance board and currently a Board member of The Network for the Development of Agricultural Cooperatives in Asia and the Pacific (NEDAC) https://nedac.info/office-bearers/

A distinguished speaker, Mr. Guragain, has addressed national and international conferences on IFRS, taxation, banking, and cooperatives. He received the “Prabal Janasewa Shree Chaturtha Shreni” medal from the President of Nepal for his contributions to the cooperative sector.

As CEO of NCBL, he continues to champion financial literacy, digital financial services, and regulatory reforms, advocating for stronger SACCOS regulation and effective risk management.