Draft:Rupak Sapkota

Dr. Rupak Sapkota (रूपक सापकोटा) is a foreign policy expert, who presently serves as foreign affairs advisor to the prime minister of Nepal.

Dr. Sapkota previously served as a Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA), a think-tank patronized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Nepal). He earned his PhD in International Relations (IR) from the Renmin University of China.

Sapkota's research encompasses geopolitics, security studies, small- big powers relations, trilaterlism among China, India and Nepal, Indo-Pacific and the Belt and Road Initiative.

Dr. Sapkota is a faculty in the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy at Tribhuvan University. Sapkota has been quoted regularly in Xinhua, China Daily, Global Times , South China Morning Post , The Annapurna Express , The Diplomat. He has also written several peer-reviewed journal articles.

Sapkota is the strongest proponent of Nepal Zone of Peace Proposition, amidst the emergence of great power rivalries at regional and global levels.

Dr. Sapkota recently participated in the Boao Forum for Asia as a panelist.