Hi all. My internship in Nepal was a great experience. Before anything, I would like to encourage you to travel there. It is a beautiful country with very nice people and it is also very safe. You find there the highest mountains on Earth in the North of the country but also tropical jungles in the South with a very rich variety of fauna, elephants, rhinos, tigers… You can trek the Annapurnas, white river raft amazing rivers, cycle the most remotes valleys, visit beautiful temples and cities, play golf in extraordinary golf courses, stay in luxury hotels or in tents in the mountains and overall enjoy peaceful people and culture.
The political situation of the country is slowly improving or at least is not getting worse and this is starting to attract foreign investment. My project as said before was related to water resources and hydro energy. Nepal has a huge hydro energy capacity of at least 40,000 MW but has only 700 MW installed and has blackouts of up to 16 hours in Kathmandu.
The Government is trying to find the best way to develop this energy to at least guaranty a good supply to the country and potentially export electricity to India.
And my job there was preparing some economic and financial models and write some final recommendations on how the country could develop this hydro energy in the most efficient way. I have to say that this is the project I have enjoyed the most in my entire professional career.
Tomorrow I am starting my second internship, in banking in New York and I am very excited.
I am a “career switcher” which means that I am trying to switch from construction to banking and honestly, I would not have been able to have this opportunity unless I had come to Tuck.
Have a great summer!
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