Ms. Sanjana Chhantyal is dedicated to expanding women’s and youths’ access to education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. At SDSN-Youth, she leads two youth and SDG-focused entrepreneurship accelerator programs. Sanjana is UN Women Asia and the Pacific's 30 for 2030 Youth Leader, USAID Youth Excel’s Global Youth Advisor and Max Thabiso Edkins Climate Ambassador. She was selected in the 2023 INvolve Heroes Role Model list supported by YouTube. A Fulbright Scholar and Emory MBA graduate, Sanjana has previously worked as a financial and investment analyst, and is currently the Project Manager at Criterion Institute, a non-profit think tank dedicated to expanding possibilities for how finance can be used for social change. She founded the Next Steps Project and conducts mentorship sessions to help aspiring students, especially young girls and first-generation students to make informed academic decisions. She co-founded the Stree-Shakti (Women in Energy) Project that encourages and prepares young women to pursue green jobs in Nepal’s Energy sector and support climate action.