Prakash Bhattarai is currently acting as Executive Director of Centre for Social Change (CSC), a non-profit research and advocacy institute in Nepal working on issues around peacebuilding, governance, migration, climate change, and civic engagement. Prakash holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He also holds master’s degrees in Population Studies (Tribhuvan University, Nepal) and in International Peace Studies (University of Notre Dame, USA). He is also a 2018 Asia Global Fellow at Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong. Prakash has more than 20 years of professional and leadership experience with his associations in a number of national and international organizations as well as the UN agencies.