Pramod Jaiswal
DIRECTOR SAFN - NEPAL
Dr. Pramod Jaiswal is a Research Director at Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement. He specializes on China and South Asia and has done extensive work on Chinese Foreign Policy, China’s South Asia Policy and China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). His research focus also includes insurgencies, border management, terrorism, illegal migration, radicalism, and ethnic conflicts. He has been a regular and visiting faculty at different universities of Nepal (Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu University, Pokhara University and Army Command and Staff College) and China (China Foreign Affairs University, Fudan University, Tongji University, and Qinghai University of Nationalities). He is Visiting Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories, Cooperative Monitoring Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US; Senior Fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi and Researcher at South Asian Studies, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Previously, he has worked with Manohar Parikkar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi and as Delhi Correspondent with the Rising Nepal. He is the Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of International Affairs, Kathmandu; Member of the Academic Committee at the Pangoal Institution, Beijing; Member of International Advisory Committee, Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, Macedonia; and the Editor in Chief of Journal of Security and International Studies and member of Subject Committee of International Relations and Diplomacy, Tribhuvan University. He holds Masters, M. Phil and PhD from School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has authored, edited and co-edited around dozens of books on China and South Asia affairs.
SAFN Nepal
Pradip Pariyar
senior Fellow- NEPAL
Pradip Pariyar is the founder of the Dalit Lives Matter Global Alliance (DLMGA) and currently leads the #DalitLivesMatter movement. He previously served as the Executive Chairperson of the Samata Foundation. In recognition of his impactful work, the World Economic Forum selected Mr. Pariyar as one of its Young Global Leaders in the Class of 2020. He received the ‘Asia’s 21 Young Leaders Award’ from the Asia Society in 2018 for his contributions to training thousands of youths globally in leadership, peacebuilding, and social justice. In 2015, the Nepal Government’s Ministry of Youth and Sports honored him with the ‘Youth Leadership Award’ for his initiation of the Youth Vision 2025, a 10-year national youth development policy. Additionally, in 2011, Mr. Pariyar was selected as a youth fellow by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Birat Anupam
Fellow- NEPAL
Birat Anupam is a Kathmandu-based journalist, translator, and author with extensive experience across local, provincial, national, and international media platforms. He gained international recognition in 2023 for breaking the story of Nepali citizens joining Russian military forces during Ukraine war, a report that led to his appearance in several international documentaries and news features broadcast by NHK World, CNA, KBS, and other global media networks.
In 2025, Anupam translated 'Report from Lhasa', a seminal work by Nepal’s pioneering anthropologist and diplomat, Dor Bahadur Bista which was tiled in Nepali as 'Lhasako Khabar'. His first book, 'Pahilo Aam Nirwachan 2015' (The First General Election 1959), explores the history of Nepal’s first parliamentary election and was shortlisted for the 'Sahitya Post Nonfiction Prize 2026'.
Anupam’s primary areas of reporting and writing include tourism, diplomacy, environmental issues, and history. His articles and analyses have appeared in prominent international publications, including The Diplomat (USA), UKClimbing (UK), Australian Outlook (Australia), Global Times (China), The Diplomatist (India), Inter Press Service (Italy), Ceylon Today (Sri Lanka), and Kuensel (Bhutan).
Active across digital and social media platforms such as Facebook, X, and TikTok, Anupam combines traditional journalism with modern storytelling. He currently serves as 'Special Correspondent' at Shilapatra Media, a leading Kathmandu-based digital news platform, where he contributes both for texts and video contents.
