An international-studies researcher (Global Politics, with a focus on development and social equity) trained across Australia and the Netherlands, with particular strength in international law and human rights alongside forced migration and postcolonial policy. Her coursework spans international humanitarian law, human rights and global justice, and migration and displacement, extended through exchange study in international law and human rights at Leiden. She leads the Institute's Migration & Diaspora Governance pillar and its comparative/decolonial research, and directs day-to-day research, writing, and operations. Her academic writing includes a distinction-winning study of gendered forced migration and a research paper on Nepal's digital-sovereignty position between India and China. This grounding in law, rights, and development means she contributes well beyond migration alone.

A scholar of religion whose doctoral research at UC Santa Barbara traces the philosophical links between eschatological thought in Vedic Hindu traditions and ancient Greek religion, work grounded equally in the history of ideas and in analytical rigour, drawing on his earlier training in physics and philosophy. He leads the Institute's Religious & Cultural-Political Literacy pillar, where that background makes him a credible voice for distinguishing authentic religious and cultural scholarship from its political instrumentalization, one of the most consequential and easily distorted areas of public life in Nepal and the wider region. His grounding in physics, philosophy, and religious studies lets him contribute across the Institute's work wherever ideas, evidence, and belief intersect.

A climate and agriculture specialist with over seven years turning field realities into practical resilience, currently as a Climate-Smart Agriculture Specialist at CARE Nepal, leading an internationally-funded Climate Smart Villages project in Madhesh Province, and previously across five years at SAHAS Nepal. Her work spans climate adaptation, food security, and agrobiodiversity, including research on women's participation and agency in climate governance, and the documentation of indigenous and "forgotten" crops. Grounded in direct engagement with the women, Dalit, and marginalized rural communities most exposed to climate shocks, she leads the Institute's Climate & Rural Resilience pillar, keeping its research anchored in the communities policy is meant to serve rather than in the capital alone. Her field experience with gender, caste, and rural livelihoods means she also strengthens the Institute's wider social and development research.

A paediatrician and retired Major General who served as Director General of Medical Services for the Nepal Army, and as National Medical Coordinator at the government's COVID-19 Crisis Management Centre, placing him at the centre of the country's largest recent public-health emergency. He also led military medical operations during the 2015 Gorkha earthquake response, commanded Shree Birendra Hospital, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Nepal Paediatric Society for nearly two decades. He currently presides over the Nepal Paediatric Society. He leads the Institute's Public Health Systems pillar, bringing rare first-hand experience of how health policy, hospital administration, and crisis coordination actually function at the national level. His decades in national crisis management and institutional leadership also inform the Institute's work on governance and security.

An ACCA-qualified financial accountant at FoodCycle, a UK charity, where he runs fund accounting, grant reporting, and year-end audits across dozens of projects and funds. His experience is specifically in the charity and non-profit sector, the same environment the Institute operates in, bringing the financial discipline its independence depends on: restricted-fund accounting, audit-ready reporting, and the funder-compliance rigour that keeps research transparent and accountable. He also builds the data dashboards that turn financial and public records into clear, verifiable information.

A climate and conservation researcher who leads a Darwin Initiative project at LI-BIRD and brings deep research-methodology expertise, study design, quantitative analysis, and data storytelling. His grounding in Nepal's climate-finance and adaptation ecosystem strengthens the rigour of the Institute's research across pillars, ensuring findings rest on sound method rather than assertion.