Kulman Ghising, Bonnie Henry and Bamdev Gautam

Nepal’s biggest challenge is not poverty. It is the impunity with which politicians operate.

Kulman Ghising was the managing director of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) until he was recently let go by the Nepal Communist Party government. Bamdev Gautam is a controversial politician and vice-chair of the Nepal Communist Party. The president of Nepal recently nominated him as a member of the Upper House of Parliament. Dr Bonnie Henry is the provincial health officer of the provincial government of British Columbia, Canada, a country that could not be more different from Nepal in terms of political stability and well being of its people.