The Britain-Nepal Academic Council was established on 23 May 2000 at a large meeting at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London of British academics and researchers interested in various aspects of Nepal.

Ian Martin will be giving a special evening talk entitled Supporting Nepal’s Peace Process: From Conflict to Constituent Assembly for the Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC) on Thursday 18 March. Martin served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) until February 2009. The talk will be held from 7-9pm in room B102 at SOAS. Click here to download a flier and abstract of the talk.

The objective of the Council is to promote academic and scholarly links between Britain and Nepal through, inter alia, collaborative research, exchange programmes and organisation of annual lectures, and seminars on areas of mutual interest to both British and Nepali academics and researchers. Please click here to join our free email list about BNAC events and activities.

The current Executive Officers are:

• Professor Surya Subedi OBE (University of Leeds), Chairman
• Professor Michael Hutt (SOAS, University of London), Treasurer
• Dr Ian Harper (University of Edinburgh), Secretary

Other members of the executive committee are:

• Dr Krishna Adhikari (CNSUK)
• Dr Ben Campbell (Durham University)
• Professor Anthony Costello (UCL)
• Professor David Gellner (University of Oxford)
• Dr Sondra Hausner (University of Oxford)
• Dr Judith Pettigrew (University of Limerick)
• Dr Mark Turin (University of Cambridge)
• Ms Mara Malagodi (SOAS, student representative)

On these pages you will find details of past and forthcoming events sponsored and organised by the BNAC, a membership form, and some means of contacting us.  We hope you will find these useful, and we look forward to meeting you at one of our future events.  If you have any kind of research or teaching interest in Nepal, please do join us.