Experience of CEO of a number of manufacturing enterprises and hydropower; former Member, Constituent Assembly/Parliament; leadership role in business community – Former President, Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Nepal Business Initiative; former senate member of various universities.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the former Vice President of National University of Singapore; Thomson Reuters recognized him among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds; Stanford Composite score (c-score) ranks him among the top 6 impactful researchers of the world in the categories of materials, biomedical engineering, and enabling & strategic technologies; Honorary Everest Chair, Madan Bhandari University of Science and Technology.
Former Principal and Vice Chancellor University of McGill, President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global University Leaders Forum; Member of the Board of Governors of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, the University of the People and the HEC Paris International Advisory Board.
Dr. Hom Nath Dhakal is the full Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University
of Portsmouth (UoP), UK. He leads the Advanced Polymers and Composites
Research Group at the UoP. He is a Docent (Visiting) Professor of Bio-based
Composite Materials at the Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business, University
of Borås, Sweden. Professor Dhakal is an internationally known leader in the field of
Sustainable Bio-based Composite Science and Engineering.