— LEAD RESEARCHER
Lead Researcher at ARC and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Dhungana brings deep expertise in disaster management, resilient communities, and humanitarian action.
Dr. Ganesh Dhungana holds a PhD in Disaster Management and is 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.
He has received numerous prestigious awards and fellowships, including the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes Fellowship from Brown University; the Development Leadership Scholar Award (2018), jointly awarded by the OPEC Fund for International Development and One Young World; the Social Science and Humanitarian Action Fellowship from the Institute of Development Studies, UK; and the DIHAD Scholar Award 2025.
As a member of the Board of Directors at Youth Innovation Lab, he provides strategic, technical, and academic leadership to the organisation.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia
Project Lead, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
PhD, Disaster Management
Director, Youth Innovation Lab
