Guide to Specialists

Jaya Acharya
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 2006-July 2007

Project Focus:
Maoist Crisis in Nepal: Diplomatic Strategies for Resolution

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Languages: Nepali and Hindi

A prominent expert on Nepal’s security and foreign relations, Jaya Acharya served as a foreign policy adviser and speechwriter to Prime Minister G. P. Koirala during 1991–2005. In the early 1990s, he was Nepal’s permanent representative to the UN, vice chairman of the UN Disarmament Committee, and vice chairman of the UN Special Committee against Apartheid. Presently, Acharya is executive chairman of Kathmandu’s Center for Democracy and Development.

He has been a fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs and the University of Leiden’s International Institute for Asian Studies, a recipient of a Fulbright grant, and has taught at the National Staff College of Nepal and at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan University.

Acharya received an M.S. from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu and an M.S. and Ph.D. in linguistics from Georgetown University.

Publications:

• "Nepal’s Conflict: Question of the UN Role," The Himalayan Times (Kathmandu, August 10, 2005).
• "Nepal at the United Nations: Focus on Socio-Economic Development," in Nepal at the United Nations, a Commemorative Volume on the 50th anniversary (Kathmandu: Institute of Foreign Affairs, 2005).
• "Nepal’s Foreign Policy: Some Reflections on Future Directions," in Journal of the Public Service Commission, His Majesty’s Government (Kathmandu, May 2005).

Available on usip.org:

• Maoist Crisis in Nepal: Diplomatic Approaches for Resolution
  Senior Fellow Project Report, June 26, 2007 (Audio Available)