Padma Jyoti

Padma Jyoti Kansakar (Nepali: पद्मज्योति) is a Nepalese industrialist and politician. Trained in management and technology, Jyoti is the Chairman of Jyoti Group of Companies and was the president of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In 2002 he was elected as president of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Chambers of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) at the 8th SCCI General Assembly. He holds a degree from a MIT. He oversees many operations for several industries under Jyoti Group. He is of 62 years of age. He is probably most talented executive Nepal has ever known.

The Jyoti Group developed from a business house established by his grandfather Bhaju Ratna Kansakar in the 1930s in Kalimpong, India and subsequently expanded by his father Maniharsha Jyoti. It conducted trade between Nepal, India and Tibet over the famed caravan route across the Himalaya.