Pitambar Prasad Acharya, Executive Director of Development Project Service Centre (DEPROSC-Nepal), is one of the pioneers of poverty reduction initiatives at the grass root level in Nepal. Mr. Acharya along with other like-minded people conceived DEPROSC Nepal, an NGO, thirty-two years back with the notion of bringing excluded, poor, minorities, women and Dalits, marginalized groups, particularly those living in rural parts of Nepal into the development mainstream that giving rise to their livelihoods, social development and self-dignity in 1993.

He has successfully established two microfinance banks in Nepal namely; Deprosc Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Ltd. (2001) and NADEP Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Ltd. (2015). He has served as a Founder Chair of DEPROSC Nepal, and Deprosc Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Ltd. for years. He has given his leadership in Microfinance Association of Nepal (MIFAN) as a Chair and Centre for Microfinance as a Vice-chair. In addition, NADEP Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha is still growing under his Chairmanship. Mr. Acharya is one of the designers to organize Microfinance Summits in Nepal since 2008. Lately, in 2017, he successfully accomplished the fourth Microfinance Summit under this chairmanship.

Mr. Acharya has contributed into a range of national, regional and international level seminars, dialogues and conferences. He has led a number of research and study for various donors and international agencies. Mr. Acharya has served for more than 20 years in the Agricultural Development Bank of Nepal and is still equally active with his enriched working experience of more than 55 years. He is a graduate on Commerce and Law from TU, Nepal, and Post Graduate on Regional Development and Planning from Israel.