Mohit Shrestha is one of the finest analytical thinkers/modelers that I have worked with in the last 25 years. He and I did many projects together, from modeling and forecasting US economic activity to doing regional analysis for a variety of US and international projects. Mohit is adept in R, SAS, EViews, IMPLAN (Impact Analysis), and many other statistical and data analysis environments. He is a superb writer and speaker. There are comparatively few people I would put on _my_ research team, but Mohit Shrestha is certainly one of them.