Mr. Sanat Kumar Basnet is a retired Chief of the Armed Police Force (APF) in Nepal. From holding prominent positions in both the Nepal Army and Armed Police Force. Mr. Basnet has extensive experience enhancing security forces and responding to natural disasters. His commitment to disaster management and response is demonstrated by his establishment of the first Armed Police Force Disaster Management Training Center in Kurintar, Chitwan, which has significantly improved disaster preparedness operations on a regional and national level. 

Prior to holding the position of Chief of the Armed Police Force, Mr. Basnet filled several critical and demanding roles, such as Department Head of Operations for the Armed Police Force Headquarters, Department Head of Human Resources Development for the Armed Police Force Headquarters, and Brigade Commander of the Eastern Regional APF Brigade Headquarters. Throughout his successful career, Mr. Basnet also helped establish a professional and merit-based UN selection system for the APF. He has also been a valuable contributor to crucial conferences such as the International Association of the Chief of Police Conference. Mr. Basnet’s outstanding background is further evident through received awards, highlights being UN service medals and a NCC silver medal from the Indian Military Academy. 

Mr. Basnet received a Master’s Degree in Military Science from the Army Command and Staff College in the UK. Currently, he is applying his educational and professional experiences to several significant projects, a key one being a Torture Prevention Human Rights Project sponsored by the European Union. IGP Banset is excited to continue fostering change in the fields of security and crisis management.

Mr. Birendra Raj Pandey is the current Director at Nepal Adarsha Nirman Co. (NANC). Mr. Pandey holds two Master’s degrees. He received his latest Master of Engineering in Construction Engineering and Project Management from the prestigious Asian Institution of Technology in Pathumthani, Thailand in 1999, and in 1997 he earned his Master of Business Administration from Tribhuvan University here in Kathmandu, Nepal. He also has previously held Commercial and Engineering Management positions abroad in Australia.

His work ethic earned him scholarships for both his studies in Thailand and India. That same work ethic is continuously reflected throughout the plethora of papers and presentations he has conducted in co-ordinance with high caliber profiles such as the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Nepal. In addition, Mr. Pandey has received professional training from organizations all over the world such as: Shimizu Corporation, Japan, NAAS and IOE, Nepal, IIT, Delhi and NUST, Norway, among others. Finally, he is a member of the Nepal Engineering Council; a life member of the Nepal Engineers Association; the Technical Expert Advisor for the Federation of Conractor’s Associations of Nepal (FCAN), and is a past President for the internationally recognized Rotary Club, for the district of Mt. Everest, Lalitpur, Nepal.

Mr. Khim Lal Devkota was educated at Tribhuvan University and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law and two Master’s degrees in Political Science and Sociology/Anthropology, respectively. He was a practicing lawyer at the Supreme Court of Nepal from 1990 to 2005. In 2006, he became a member of the Interim Constitution Drafting Committee and then the Interim Legislature Parliament of Nepal. In these roles, he was closely involved in law-making and the tough negotiating process to create a consensus in the political transition. He focused on finding solutions to such issues as army integration, monarchy dissolution, and Maoist inclusion in parliament. In 2008, he became a member of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal and, in 2009, a member of the Constitutional Committee of Nepal. Here, he acted as a drafting committee member and contributed as a member of the Taskforce for High Level Political Mechanisms in important negotiations. Furthermore, Mr. Devkota was the Chairperson of the National Intellectuals Organization of Nepal until 2015 where he was heavily involved in facilitating intellectual discourse on constitutionalism and good governance.

Finally, Mr. Devkota has widespread experience in presenting guest lectures and participation in seminars across the world and his frequent contributions to Gorkhapatra National Daily are widely read. He has also been actively involved in the human rights movement of Nepal for more than two decades and has been published widely in the areas of constitutional, administrative, and human rights law. Mr. Devkota is currently a senior advocate for the Supreme Court of Nepal from his role as legal and constitutional advisor at Swabhiman Law Firm and Consultancy.

Dr Kishor, visiting Associate Professor of Behavioural Sciences at O.P. Jindal Global University, has a doctoral level training with significant academic and professional experience in counseling, coaching, and mentoring training, and education. His expertise is built overs years of experience both in industry and academia in Silicon Valley, California, Bengaluru, Indian, and in Nepal. He is the principal of ICMS, Samarpam Academy Dhumbarahi since 2022.

He also also taught at Christ University, Bangalore as Associate Professor. He has professional level expertise in employee assistant program (EAP). He is interested in developing competent HR manager and entrepreneurship by combing behavioral science and technology. He has received Nepal Bidya Bhusan Padak Class A & B for his academic achievements from Government of Nepal in 2018. He has also received Information Communication Technology Award 2018 for the technological innovation in psychometric assessment in Nepal.

He is also a founder of People Development Lab Pvt. Ltd., and acting principal and a member of board of directors of Institute of Crisis management and Studies (ICMS). He teaches career development and International HRM, and HRD Strategies to MBA students as an adjunct faculty in multiple colleges. Furthermore, Dr Adhikari is deeply involved in entrepreneurial development of youths.

Dr. Raju Thapa is a lawyer, disaster management expert, researcher, and humanitarian professional with extensive experience in disaster risk reduction, crisis management, human rights, peacebuilding, and public policy. He holds a PhD in Disaster Management and multiple master’s degrees in human rights, conflict and peace studies, political science, and sociology. He previously served as Member Secretary of the Government of Nepal’s National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR) and is the Immediate Past President of the Disaster Preparedness Network-Nepal (DPNet). He is also an Australia Awards Fellow in Inclusive Disaster Management and has led or contributed as a team member to numerous national and international initiatives related to disaster preparedness, humanitarian response, climate resilience, policy development, and institutional capacity building

Dr. Sambriddhi Kharel holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh (USA). She conducted her research on the Dialectics of Identity and Resistance among Dalits in Nepal and completed her Master's in Sociology from the University of Louisville (USA).  Currently, she is an adjunct professor and a senior research fellow at Nepā School of Social Science and Humanities.  

Dr. Kharel has worked as a gender consultant and researcher on many projects, and was a visiting lecturer for the TU M.Phil. program, Department of Education in 2012. She also taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 2003 to 2010. Her research interests include social inequalities and the interaction of caste, class, race, ethnicity, gender and religion. Dr. Kharel is also interested in the gender dimension of crisis management: how gender relations position women and men differently before, during and after crisis periods, and how to identify and evaluate strategies used by women and men to survive and to respond to crisis.

Mr Bajracharya is a successful businessman. He completed his Bachelors in Business at Tribhuvan University. He founded the Nepa Marble Bath House that has been running successfully for over 30 years. His role as Board Member at ICMS is to promote the Institute.