Biography

Jagat is an Executive Council Member of Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) located in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He is a Chief Advisor and Former Chairperson of Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) based in Nepal and the former Co-chair of Dedicated Grant Mechanism (DGM) Nepal. He has expertise in free prior informed consent, climate change, land tenure rights as well as a long working experience on the rights of Indigenous Peoples & local communities, conservation, national parks, hunting reserve and the field of human rights.