Dr. Pramod Jaiswal is the Research Director at Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement (NIICE). He is a Teaching Faculty at different universities in Nepal, China, Thailand, and Bangladesh. He delivers lectures for US Department of State officials organized by the National Foreign Affairs Training Center (NFATC), Washington, DC. He is a Visiting Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories, Cooperative Monitoring Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico and an alumnus of the Near East South Asia Center, National Defence University, Washington DC. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi; Non-Resident Fellow at India Studies Center, Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National and International Security, Belgrade. He was awarded the Canberra Fellowship in 2025.
Previously, Mr. Jaiswal was a Researcher at South Asian Studies, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. He has worked as Strategic Affairs Editor and Special Correspondent with different reputed media outlets of Nepal. He is a Member of the International Advisory Committee, Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, Macedonia; was a Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of International Affairs, Kathmandu; and a member of the Subject Committee of International Relations and Diplomacy, Tribhuvan University. He has also served as a member of the Academic Committee at the Pangoal Institution, Beijing. He holds a Master’s, M. Phil and PhD from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the recipient of Silver Jubilee Scholarship and SAARC Doctoral Fellowship from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Government of India. He has authored, edited, and co-edited around two dozen books on China and South Asia affairs.
