Staff
Find out about Foundation Nepal’s staff here.
Nicky is Foundation Nepal’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). After graduating first in her faculty with a 1.1 Bachelor of Business Studies degree (Accounting & Finance) from Trinity College in 1995, Nicky joined KPMG Corporate Finance in Dublin, where she trained as a Chartered Accountant, coming fifth in Ireland in the final exams. She was promoted to Associate Director with KPMG Corporate Finance. In 2002, she was recruited by Ernst & Young to set up a corporate finance practice for the West of Ireland, and relocated to Galway. As a Director in the firm, she worked on a wide range of merger and acquisition deals for leading Irish companies. At Christmas 2006, aged 32, she left the business world to do something more meaningful with her life, and set up Foundation Nepal. Read about Foundation Nepal’s story>
Contact Nicky
Send an email to Nicky at nicky.deasy@foundation-nepal.org or call her on +353 (0)87 6864936.
Amanda is the Volunteer and Development Education Manger which covers volunteer recruitment, policy development, planning and organising volunteer placements in Nepal both short and long term. Amanda also supports the volunteers with their fundraising initiatives and delivers their pre-departure training. Further to the fundraising supports to volunteers Amanda is also in charge of Foundation Nepal’s counter top collection boxes, which are managed by volunteers around the country. In addition, she is also responsible for delivering development education to different Secondary schools in both Galway and Clare. Amanda’s new fundraising initiate for this year is to establish “Recycle and Raise Funds” through recycling mobile phones and ink cartridges.
Amanda graduated with a first class Bachelors of Arts degree in 1988 in the UK. She started her career in Community Development in Dublin in 1992 with NOW (New Opportunities for Women). She has worked with Family Resource Centres, Community Development Projects and Refugee Asylum Seekers, as well as teaching Information Technology to a variety of people.
Contact Amanda
Send an email to Amanda at amanda.milne@foundation-nepal.org or call her on +353 (0)86 3668811.
Amber is currently on maternity leave having had a baby boy - congratulations Amber! Her role is being covered by Fiona Dunning, acting PR & Marketing Manager.
Amber is responsible for Foundation Nepal’s marketing and communications, as well as events management. Her job is to raise the profile of the charity and keep our donors up to speed on our work. She works three days a week.
After graduating with a first class honours degree in Business Studies and Sociology from Trinity College, Amber worked in marketing, lecturing and management in Scandinavia for seven years with the Irish government’s business development agency, a Danish business college and a Danish international communications agency. Since returning to Ireland in 2007, she worked in marketing and events management at the National Museum of Ireland and as a freelance marketing consultant before joining Foundation Nepal.
Contact Fiona in Amber's absence
Send an email to Fiona at
fiona.dunning@foundation-nepal.org or call her on +353 (0)86 4012 441.
Tara is currently on maternity leave. Her role is being covered by Barbara Serdeczna.
Tara is Foundation Nepal’s Group Accountant. She works on a part-time basis.
Tara graduated from University College Galway in 1995 with a B Comm honours degree and then took up a trainee position with KPMG in Dublin where she trained as a Chartered Accountant in their Corporate Recovery Department. Following qualification she moved to KPMG's audit practice in Dublin where she worked for a number of years before transferring to KPMG London where she worked for five years as a senior audit manager.
Contact Barbara in Tara's absence
Send an email to Barbara at barbara@foundation-nepal.org or call her on +353 (0)91 446864.
Nirmala Adhikari is based in Kathmandu, Nepal. She manages Foundation Nepal’s projects in Nepal and makes regular trips to Humla.
Born and raised in Nepal, Nirmala has over 27 years of rural development experience and holds two Masters in Economics and Agricultural Economics, and a Degree in Law. She has published extensively on the topic of agriculture and women, livelihood rights of women, and gender and social inclusion. Her previous professional experience includes numerous positions at the Nepalese Ministry of Agriculture, as well as working for international NGOs, Save the Children UK and International Development Enterprises, and a Community Health Development Project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency.
In her free time, Nirmala works on a voluntary basis with women and children living in Kathmandu’s slums. Here, she facilitates literacy classes, runs kitchen garden training, provides counselling on family planning and prevention of HIV/AIDS, and is involved in other community development work.
Contact Nirmala
Send an email to Nirmala at nirmala.adhikari@foundation-nepal.org
or call her on +977 1 4108945.
