Retired Faculty Members

Prof. Dr. Bal Kumar KC

Prof. Dr. Prem Singh Bisht

Prof. Dr. Prava Kumari Hamal

Dr. Sunil Kumar Acharya

Mr. Bidhan Acharya

Prof. Dr. Ram Sharan Pathak

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Contact Address	:	Ward No. 9 (Gongabu), Tokha Municipality Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact. No	:	977-1-5906713; Mobile: 977-9841228629
Email	:	:drpathakrs@gmail.com, ramsharan.pathak@cdpl.tu.edu.np
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Prof. Ram Sharan Pathak, PhD (Nuwakot, Nepal) is a Professor of Population Studies and affiliated with the Central Department of Population Studies (CDPS), Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal. As a Senior Population Expert, he is also one of the Expert Members of the TU Population Studies Subject Committee. An MA in Economics (1983, TU) and MA in Demography (1993, ANU), his PhD (1996) is from the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.

Prof. Pathak's field of expertise is population, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and development, and has a number of national/international publications on various aspects of population, health and development. He has participated and presented papers as chair and paper presenter in the national/international seminars/workshops/conferences on various aspects of population, health and development.

Prof. Pathak has about 40 years of teaching and research experiences in TU and has been supervising M. Phil. Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations in Population Studies. He was also the External Evaluator of PhD Dissertation, JNU, New Delhi, India. He has been a principal investigator in several research projects (national/international) conducted by the CDPS, TU for the Ministry of Health and Population; Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare; World Wildlife Fund/Nepal; FPAN; New ERA; Nepal Red Cross Society; Marie Stopes International; UNFPA; British Council/DFID; UNESCAP; World Bank; Save the Children – Nepal; Population Services International- Nepal; Family Health International- Nepal etc.

Prof. Pathak was the Head of the CDPS/TU for two tenures (12 November 2012 – 20 August 2020). He also worked as M. Phil. Program Coordinator (2008 - 2020) at the CDPS/TU and also worked as the Director (2003 - 2007) of Centre for Population Research and Training (CPRT), CDPS/TU. Besides, he also coordinated the national and international training workshops/conferences organized by the CDPS/TU.

Prof. Pathak's professional academic involvement includes: Resource Person/Advisor for the GOs/NGOs/INGOs and National and Foreign Universities; President (2012-2014) Population Association of Nepal (PAN); Member (January 2019 - August 2020), Steering Committee of the National Population Census 2021 (2078 BS), National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal; Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016), Population Division, Ministry of Health and Population, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu; Member (2017-2019) National Population Council Chaired by the Right Honorable Prime Minister, Government of Nepal; Member (2017-2019) Tribhuvan University Academic Council, Kathmandu, Nepal; and Member, Tribhuvan University Senate (17 September 2018 – 20 August 2020), Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Prof. Pathak was awarded UNFPA Fellowship (1991-1995) to accomplish his MA, and Ph.D. at the Australian National University, Canberra and awarded Mahendra Viddya Bhushan I in 2 1997. He has been awarded Ambassador for Peace, from the Universal Peace Federation and Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace.

Prof. Pathak has visited number of countries including USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Qatar, Philippines, Malaysia, China, and India.

Prof. Dr. Govind Subedi (Former Head)

Contact Address	:	Kirtipur Municipality, Ward no. 2, Kathmandu, Nepal
Contact. No	:	:977-1-4331323 (Off.); 977-1-4330135 (Res.); 977-9851157758 (Cell)
Email	:	:subedigs2010@gmail.com, govind.subedi@cdpl.tu.edu.np
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Prof. Dr. Govind Subedi is currently the Head of Central Department of Population Studies, Tribhuvan University (TU), Kathmandu, Nepal. He earned his Master Degree in Population Studies from TU and another Master Degree in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Sciences (ISS), the Hague, the Netherlands. He has completed MPhil and PhD from Center for the Study of Social System (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India.

He has been teaching for the last 30 years in TU, and his areas of teaching and research are political demography, population and development, population and social justice, gender and development, child rights, trafficking in person and commercial sexual exploitation of children. In addition to teaching in PhD and MPhil program, he has been continuously supervising PhD and MPhil thesis.

He has published a number of research-based articles including books from Nepal as well as from abroad. He also worked with different national and international organizations including with the Ministry of Health and Population and Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens, the Government of Nepal and National Human Rights Commission as his capacity of researcher/evaluator/consultant. He is at present a Senate Member of Tribhuvan University.

He is also a board member of Children Workers in Nepal (CWIN) – a child rights organization in Nepal and a life-member of Indian Sociology Society. Prof. Subedi served as the Principal of University Campus, Tribhuvan University (2013-2017).