Ajaya Shrestha

Associate Director

Ajaya is one of Third Horizon’s public sector practice leaders with deep experience in large scale operating model design and transformation. Prior to Third Horizon, Ajaya spent three years working in the not-for-profit sector in India, where he helped setup a new education and leadership program and rehabilitated child labourers.

With over 15 years of consulting and management experience, Ajaya specialises in business model, operating model, business process improvement and complex program delivery.

His recent clients have included: Department of Health & Human Services (Vic), NSW Roads and Maritime Services, Department of Human Services, QLD Communities, Department of Finance, Services and Innovation (NSW).

Ajaya holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics from Middlebury College, USA.

ajaya.shrestha@thirdhorizon.com.au

0412 468 038

Specialties

The Real Ajaya

Specialties

Canberra Office and Public Practice Leader

Operating Model Designer

Associate Director

The Real Ajaya

Originally from Kathmandu Nepal, Ajaya is the only person from Third Horizon to have trekked to Everest Base Camp (5,300m), where the highest point was 5,500m. He has also braved -40 degree centigrade winter temperatures attending college in Vermont, USA. He is especially proud of the work he did for an NGO in India for three years. He rescued and rehabilitated child labourers from slum sweatshops for two years before helping establish Kaivalya Education Foundation – a university that trains school principals. And he also worked for HBO in New York – saving people from average sitcoms and reality TV.

And it’s pronounced – Au’jay.