Advisory Committee
According to NEPAFE's constitution, the Executive Committee can form an Advisory Committee of not exceeding 9 members to advise EC and the Association’s activities.
The members of the Advisory Committee are selected from among the highly- experienced and highly reputed and recognized academicians and scientists from agriculture, forestry, and environmental management, or in allied fields, based in Australia or Nepal.
The Terms of Reference of the Advisory Committee are as follows:
1- Key stakeholder mapping and engagement
2- Proactively promoting scientific and technological developments to members and key stakeholders
3- Champion the provision of objective advice on the pertinent issues on Agriculture, Forestry and Environment to key stakeholders
4- Providing advice on relevant topics, and the quality, relevance, and currency of technical and scientific content to be produced and disseminated by NEPAFE to its members and wider community.
5- Provide suggestion in preparing relevant position papers, MoU, guidance materials and any other publications addressing scientific and technological developments
6- Advise rolling plans for NEPAFE scientific conventions and major satellite meetings, including advising themes for these events
7- Availing own selves or suggesting relevant experts as speakers for conventions, seminars and webinars
8- Setting standards for scientific events, regarding quality, relevance, and currency of the technical and scientific content, and
9- Advising relevant changes in the policy, procedures and scope of NEPAFE
Responding to any guidance, advisory or mentoring request of NEPAFE executive committee on priority basis.
Advisory Committee 2024-26
Dr. Jagadish Timsina (Melbourne, VIC)
Chief Advisor
Senior Fellow, Evergreening Alliance
Senior Agricultural Sciences Advisor, IFSD
Dr. Hemant Ojha (Sydney, NSW)
Advisor
Principal Advisor, Institute for Study and Development Worldwide (IFSD)
Prof. Tek Maraseni (Toowoomba, QLD)
Advisor
Professor, University of Southern Queensland
Dr. Sita Ram Ghimire (ACT)
Advisor
Agronomist, Department of Agriculture, Government of Australia
Dr. Aneeta Pradhan (WA)
Advisor
University of Western Australia, Evolutionary Biologist, Molecular Biologist
Advisory Committee 2022-24
Dr. Jagadish Timsina (Melbourne, VIC)
Senior Fellow, Evergreening Alliance
Senior Agricultural Sciences Advisor, IFSD
Dr. Hemant Ojha (Sydney, NSW)
Principal Advisor, Institute for Study and Development Worldwide (IFSD)
Dr. Tek Maraseni (Toowoomba, QLD)
Professor, University of Southern Queensland
Dr. Phul Subedi (Rockhampton, QLD)
Horticulturist
Dr. Rajendra Adhikari (QLD)
Lecturer in Agribusiness, The University of Queensland
Dr. Basu Dev Regmi (WA)
The University of Western Australia, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
Dr. Kedar Adhikari (NSW)
Senior Plant Breeder at University of Sydney
Dr. Jay Dhungel (NSW)
Senior Research Fellow, IFSD, Agriculture system and sustainable development
