Kishor Aryal is a PhD researcher in ecosystem services from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), Australia. He has done two master’s degrees, one from Wageningen University of The Netherlands and another from Tribhuvan University of Nepal. Throughout his career, he has received various fellowships for research and training (i.e., NUFFIC Scholarship, UNEP fellowship, Australian Government RTP scholarship). He has co-produced 26 peer-reviewed articles in international refereed journals (21 of them in Q1 journals & 17 of them as the lead author), and few more articles are under review. He won the Student Publication Excellence Award in 2023 and was awarded as the ‘Featured Student’ in 2021 at UniSQ. He has been involved in research and teaching programs in various subjects at UniSQ. He taught into B.Sc. Forestry courses for 3 years at the Kathmandu Forestry College and served the roles of training officer and technology extension officer for the government of Nepal. Further, he has worked for ICIMOD (an inter-governmental research organization of 8 Hindu-Kush Himalayan Countries) as a researcher. For the last 15 years, he has been working with the Government of Nepal, and is equipped with policy and practical knowledge and experience in environmental science and ecosystem management. He has a unique capacity to operationalize the science-policy interface through his long-served role as an officer under the Government of Nepal and a researcher in ecosystem services and natural resource management.
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 4350, Australia. Email: syangjali999@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/000-0001-6766-7123
Integrated River Basin Management: Lessons Learned from the Nepal Himalaya
