Pratima Gurung

Pratima Gurung is an academic activist. She is a faculty member at Padmakanya College, under Tribhuvan University since 2005. She has played instrumental role in framing intersectional lens related with multiple identities ans theme like climate, gender, justice. She was awarded the National Human Rights Award by the NHRC of Nepal and Human Rights and Environmental Award Year 2023 from the United Nations in 15th Dec, 2023 in USA.

She serves as an advisory member for Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Program-McGill University, Faculty of Law, Canada and she is a global advisory member for World Economic Forum, Geneva Switzerland. She contributes as a steering committee member for the Civil Society Coordination Mechanism (CSCM) for Conference of State Parties (COSP) under UNCRPD mechanism. At present she is an executive board member of Women Enabled International based in Washington DC. USA. At the regional level, she is a board member at Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility under International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Asia Regional focal person of Thematic Group on Disaster Risk Reduction (TG-DRR) and focal person of Asia Pacific Indigenous Women and Girls with Disabilities Network. She serves as an executive board member for Indigenous Peoples Assistance Solidarity Fund.