Dileep Agrawal is a Nepalese

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. He is the founder and director of

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, an

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providing company. Agrawal takes an interest in environmental development activities including dealing with climate change.

Early life and education

Agrawal was born in the

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region of Nepal, the son of Professor Vishwanath Agrawal. He completed his schooling in

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and in 1992 was awarded a full scholarship at

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, where he graduated in 1996. He started an

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service in Nepal with his cousins as partners while he was in

for a summer vacation, establishing

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Pvt. Ltd. in 1995, and then returned to the

to complete his college education. After completion of his college degree he returned to

to continue his business career in a budding

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business.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Agrawal, Dileep Nepalese businesspeople People from Kathmandu 1973 births Living people