Dileep Agrawal is a Nepalese

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. He is the founder and director of WorldLink, an Internet service providing company. Agrawal takes an interest in environmental development activities including dealing with climate change.

Early life and education

Agrawal was born in the Gaur

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region of Nepal, the son of Professor Vishwanath Agrawal. He completed his schooling in

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and in 1992 was awarded a full scholarship at

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, where he graduated in 1996. He started an

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service in Nepal with his cousins as partners while he was in

for a summer vacation, establishing WorldLink Communications Pvt. Ltd. in 1995, and then returned to the

to complete his college education. After completion of his college degree he returned to

to continue his business career in a budding

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business.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Agrawal, Dileep Nepalese businesspeople Businesspeople from Kathmandu 1973 births Living people