Bishnu Bahadur Khatri, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Central Department of Rural Development (CDRD), Tribhuvan University, Nepal, where he also served as Head of the Department from 2021 to 2025. With over two decades of experience in teaching and research, his expertise spans multidisciplinary areas, more specifically development studies: rural agriculture, migration dynamics, climate change, tourism studies, and so on. He has supervised more than 60 MA students and has authored over 50 scholarly publications, including journal articles, reference books, edited book chapters, and monographs at both national and international levels.