The Expert/Consultant is a specialist for Nepal and Bhutan – the countries in the Himalayan belt and has provided expert reports to the UK and U.S. courts, including NGOs and businesses around the world. The Expert has appeared in court to provide testimony. The expert was born and raised in Nepal - and provides linguistic expertise in the Nepali language too. He was recently involved in a charity project in Nepal in 2021 and 2022, during this period, he spent a substantial amount of time in Nepal. He regularly travels to Nepal for study and social enterprise projects – and closely collaborates with various agencies in Nepal and Bhutan.
The Expert is currently continuing his doctoral research in politics at Birkbeck College, the University of London. He was previously enrolled on a PhD programme at the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) where he began his research on the dynamics of the relationship of Nepal’s internal political actors with India and China. The Expert is a Member of the Britain Nepal Academic Council (BNAC), Political Studies Association (PSA) and Chatham House.
- Political Parties, Political and Social Movements, NGOs and Civil Societies, Maoists and Civil War, Political Transition, Bureaucracy, and Institutionalised Harassment;
- Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Gender Discrimination, Inter-caste Marriage, Ethnic, Religious and Gender Minority Groups, Foreign Employment, Tibetan and Bhutanese Refugees, Modern Slavery, Migration and Diaspora;
- Foreign Policy, Geopolitical Trends and Regional Security in the Himalayan Belt;
- Gurkhas, Employment in the Foreign Military and Security Contractors;
- Nepali Language Expert (Language Analysis), Document Verification, and Translation (Nepali<>English).
- Completed Expert reports for the purpose of litigation in the UK and the U.S. courts on matters related to Nepal’s Political Parties, Tibetan and Bhutanese Refugees, Inter-caste Marriage, Maoist Waged Civil-War, and Gender and Religious Minorities.
- Produced independent reports and consulting works for INGOs and businesses around the world on issues relating to INGOs, Gurkhas, Migration, Foreign Employment and the Internal Political and Social System of Nepal.
- Advised Nepal and UK-based companies on issues of Nepali Immigration, Economic Migration, Internal Bureaucratic System, and Employment.
- Knowledge of UK immigration Law and Procedure, Asylum System, Modern Slavery, Experience in Analysing witness Statements, Home Office Determination Letters, Tribunal Decisions, and Country Evidence.
- Managed a UK charity project on Nepalese ethnic minorities and their social integration into British society. Regular contact with Minority Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Ethnic Minority communities in the UK and liaising with stakeholders in Nepal.
Since 2018, the Expert has been actively researching on a part-time basis for a doctoral level of research (yet to be published) titled “On a razor’s edge: the troubled neutrality behind the geopolitical dilemma facing Nepal amid the global rise of India and China.” The research investigates the interaction between Nepal’s political parties and international political actors as the dynamics of these internal-external relations significantly affect Nepal’s domestic and foreign policy outcomes. The primary focus of this research is the study of a discourse analysis of Nepal’s politics, economy, and society since 1947. Within this theoretical and periodical framework, the research investigates the substantial development of Nepal’s internal-external relations with India and China, strictly focusing on the characters of Nepal’s mainstream political parties; Nepal Communist Party (UML), Nepal Communist Party (Maoist Centre) and Nepali Congress (NC).
Kirat and Satyahangma.