Dr. Pramod Jaiswal is the Research Director at NIICE. He has been a regular and visiting faculty at different universities of Nepal and China. He is Visiting Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories, Cooperative Monitoring Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US; 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 Institute for National and International Security, Belgrade. He is also an alumnus of the Near East South Asia Center, National Defence University, Washington DC. Previously, he was Researcher at South Asian Studies, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and Manohar Parikkar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. He has worked as Correspondent and Strategic Affairs Editor with different reputed media outlets of Nepal. He is the Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of International Affairs, Kathmandu; Member of the Academic Committee at the Pangoal Institution, Beijing; Member of International Advisory Committee, Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, Macedonia; and member of Subject Committee of International Relations and Diplomacy, Tribhuvan University. He holds Masters, M. Phil and PhD from School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the recipient of Silver Jubilee Scholarship and SAARC Doctoral Fellowship from 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.