Jeevan Baniya has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oslo, Norway, and an MA from Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) Ajou University, South Korea. He has served as a faculty member at Tribhuvan University where he tought master’s and PhD degree courses and supervised students in dissertation work. He has provided advisory and technical support to the Ministry for Labour, Employment and Social Security, the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), Government of Nepal; the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Nepal; the ILO (Geneva, Nepal and Kenya); Centre for Policy Research, the United Nations University, trade unions and CSOs. His academic interests include public policy, labour and migration, democracy and development, governance, disaster, gender and social inclusion (GESI), and state-society relations, among others. Occasionally, he writes op-eds in and is regularly interviewed for commentaries by national media.

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