Manish Thapa (Ph.D.) on Clubhouse

Bio

💰Founding Managing Partner - Global Equity Fund (Nepal based SEBON licensed Private Equity & Venture Capital Fund)- We invest in Startups and Growth-stage companies. (We are launching NPR 2 Billion “Laxmi Impact Growth Equity Fund -I”)

🎓Professor of International Relations
Taught @ United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE) - Costa Rica🇨🇷 ; University of Warsaw - Poland🇵🇱; Shinawatra University - Thailand 🇹🇭; McGill University - Canada 🇨🇦; University of Notre Dame - USA 🇺🇸; Uppsala University - Sweden 🇸🇪; Tribhuvan University - Nepal 🇳🇵 ; Nepal Army Command and Staff College - Nepal 🇳🇵
Advised & Minted 7 Doctoral Scholars & currently advising and mentoring 4 Doctoral Candidate.

🏦Board of Director – Laxmi Bank

🏫Board of Director – Asian Institute of Technology & Management (AITM)

🏭 Expert Member: Bi-National & NRN Coordination Forum - Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce & Industries (FNCCI)

🌏President - Nepal France Economic Forum 🇳🇵🇫🇷

📜Education: Post Doc (University of Warsaw - Poland 🇵🇱): Ph.D. (University of Tokyo - Japan 🇯🇵); Masters Research (McGill University - Canada🇨🇦); Masters (European University- Austria 🇦🇹).

✈️✈️Travel Enthusiast – Travelled more than 55 countries so far and still counting

📎📎Lived and Worked in 11 countries🇳🇵🇮🇳🇦🇹🇨🇦🇧🇹🇯🇵🇺🇸🇸🇪🇵🇱🇹🇭🇨🇷

🏫Eduprenuer - Worked as founding member and lead successful education institutions in Nepal namely: Global College of Management; Uniglobe College, Global College International, Valley View English School, Uniglobe Higher Secondary College and Kathmandu World School (Vision Phase). Now working in a vision to found a Private University in Nepal with focus on entrepreneurial pedagogy.

✍️📚 Author & Editor of 4 books and working on more:

📕Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies, (Chief Editor), London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

📗Internal Conflicts & Peacebuilding Challenges (Editor & Contributor), New Delhi: KW Publishers, 2016.

📘India in the Contemporary World: Polity, Economy & International Relations, London: Routledge, 2014.

📙Institutional Approaches to Gender Mainstreaming Policies in Post Conflict Reconstruction – A Case Study of World Bank, Berlin: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.