Dr. Ganesh Dhungana holds a PhD in Disaster Management and is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Before joining UBC, he served as Project Lead for the Program on Resilient Communities at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University.
His work bridges risk science and governance to understand how communities can better adapt to natural hazards. Ganesh’s research emphasizes policy-relevant approaches that link technical risk assessment with practical decision-making in diverse socio-environmental contexts. His interdisciplinary focus contributes to more robust governance frameworks that integrate hazard science, planning, and inclusive stakeholder engagement.
He has received numerous prestigious awards and fellowships, including the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes Fellowship from Brown University, USA; the Development Leadership Scholar Award (2018), jointly awarded by the OPEC Fund for International Development, Austria, and One Young World, UK; the Social Science and Humanitarian Action Fellowship from the Institute of Development Studies, UK; and the DIHAD Scholar Award 2025 from the DIHAD Sustainable Organisation, UAE.