Bhim Prasad Subedi is the Chairman of University Grant Commission, Nepal. He served as a professor of geography at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He has a PhD in Geography (Population Geography) from the University of Hawaii, USA, 1993. He also served as a member at Academic Council and Research Committee of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tribhuvan University. Subedi is also a member of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Arts and Research Committee, School of Education at Kathmandu University. His major areas of specialisation are migration and social and gender dimensions of population, social safeguards, ethnic diversification, population aging, and livelihood studies.