Lok Raj Baral

Lok Raj Baral is a professor of political science and former ambassador of Nepal to India. He served as a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and was a visiting fellow at the Chr. Michelsen Institute at Bergen, Norway. Baral has authored and edited more than 30 books and published articles in leading national and international journals. He was head of the Political Science Department at Tribhuvan University and president of the Nepal Council of World Affairs and the Nepal Political Science Association. Currently, he is the honorary chairman of the Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies (NCCS), Kathmandu University.