About the Speaker

Dr. Pramod Jaiswal is a Research Director at Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement, Kathmandu. He is also a researcher at South Asian Studies, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. 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 a Visiting Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories, Cooperative Monitoring Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi. Previously, he has worked with Manohar Parikkar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi and as Delhi Correspondent with the Rising Nepal, Nepal’s state-owned media. He is a 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; the Editor in Chief of Journal of Security and International Studies, Kathmandu; Member of Subject Committee of International Relations and Diplomacy, Tribhuvan University; Member of Institute for National and International Security, Belgrade and Member of Multipolarity Research Centre, Sydney.

He is also contributing as Strategic Affairs Editor at Nepalkhabar, Nepal’s largest digital media of Nepal. He holds Masters, M. Phil and PhD from School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He specializes on China and South Asia and has done extensive work on Chinese Foreign Policy, China’s South Asia Policy, China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, Indo-Pacific Affairs, etc. He has authored, edited and co-edited around dozens of books on China and South Asia affairs and frequently contributes to national and international dallies in English, Hindi and Nepali. The most recent are – Rebalancing Asia: Belt and Road Initiative and Indo-Pacific Strategy, (Singapore: Springer, 2021), Geopolitics of South Asia and Indo-Pacific Region, (New Delhi: GB Books, 2022) and Northern Neighbours, Southern Concerns: Political, Strategic and Economic Dimensions of Nepal-China Relations, (New Delhi: GB Books, 2022).