COVID-19 has made it traditional methods for managing regulation and for engaging stakeholders. But the pandemic also made management and engage more important than ever! What have people tried? What have they learned?

Two respected regulators joined Next Practices Live to share their thoughts and experiences. Both are recent PURC alumni. Commissioner Ram Prasad Dhital is with the Nepal Electricity Regulatory Commission. He was previously executive director of the Alternative Energy Promotion Center in Kathmandu. Before that he was an Energy Advisor with the Vanuatu Energy for Rural Development Program in Vanuatu and National Area Based Development Program in Afghanistan.

Imran Ghaznavi is the Senior Executive Director and Official Spokesman for the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority of Pakistan. Certified as a director for corporate governance, he has served as a Visiting Professor at SZABIST in Islamabad, and as Head of Corporate Communication and Government Relations for Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited.

Our guests focused on:

• How did their agencies decide to work?
• How did they develop and follow priorities?
• How did they communicate with stakeholders?
• How did they develop and maintain relationships with government?
• What lessons have they learned that will affect regulation in their countries.