Shankar Rai is a highly experienced bio-engineering practitioner with over 30 years of professional experience in assessment, design, implementation, and supervision of slope protection and erosion control works of roadside slopes and watersheds, adopting bioengineering techniques in Nepal, Timor‐Leste, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh. In doing so, he delivers practical field-based training on landslide assessment and bioengineering applications for road engineers, sub-engineers, supervisors, and foresters. He has extensive experience of working in Nepal on bio-engineering applications with the Department of Roads and the Department of Local Infrastructure Development and Agriculture Roads in Nepal with various projects funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, German Technical Support (GIZ), the European Union, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).