Research Coordinator

Mr. Kapil Dhungana has been working as a Research Coordinator at the Gandaki Province Academy of Science and Technology Since 2020. Mr. Dhungana worked as the climate change officer/Environment officer at the Provincial Ministry of Forest, Environment, and Soil Conservation Gandaki Province from 2019 to 2020. He possesses over a decade of experience working as a civil servant, since he joined the Government of Nepal, as a Forest Ranger in 2012. 

Currently, Mr. Dhungana is a doctoral candidate at Beijing Forestry University, China in Environmental Engineering. He has obtained a Master of Forestry Economics and Management from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China, and an MSc. Forestry from Tribhuvan University, Nepal.  

He has a long-term research interest in Forest ecology, Econometrics, ecological economics, and RS/GIS. Along with this, he has proficiency in STATA, SPSS, GEE & GIS.  Moreover, he has attended different international training, conferences, and symposiums along with publications in international journals.

Presently, he is a graduate student in the China Agriculture University.