Mr. Laxman Datt Pant is the Chairperson of Media Action Nepal, Co-Chair of the Media Freedom Coalition-Consultative Network (MFC-CN) and Adjunct Professor of Media Ethics at the Tbilisi State University in Georgia. He serves as the AMIC Country Representative for Nepal. Pant taught development journalism at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh (2008-2009) & various courses of media studies at Kathmandu University in Nepal (2010-2018) and served as the Coordinator for Future Communicators’ Programme of the School of Journalism of the Yunnan University, China (2019-2020). His main research areas include safety of journalists, media ethics, countering disinformation and promoting freedom of expression.
A former UN Programme Specialist, Pant started his career as a journalist more than two decades ago and worked with numerous media institutions in different capacities ranging from a reporter to an editor. Co-editor of the UNESCO research publication Supporting Safety of Journalists in Nepal: An Assessment Based on UNESCO‘s Safety Indicators- A Media safety Landscape of Nepal (2016) , co-editor/lead researcher of the UNESCO/PMA study on Impact of COVID-19 on media freedom, journalist safety and media viability in Southeast Asia (2021), Pant also served as the Member of the Advisory Editorial Board/Author, IGI Global, USA: For books titled “Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety (2020)” & “Discrimination, Gender Equality and Safety Risks in Journalism (2021)” .
