Ram Bhandari is a Nepali activist and academic practitioner with over 20 years of experience in the enforced disappearance, missing, victim and survivor's needs, transitional justice and human rights. His work has focused, amongst others, on: enforced disappearance and missing persons, family associations and victim mobilisation, victim needs, participation and survivor-led movements, transformative transitional justice, and human rights. Research interests have focused on the role of victim movements in transitional justice processes, victim participation, transnational victim movements and solidarity discourses, memorialisation, reparations and prevention. He is founder of Network of Families of the Disappeared in Nepal and co-founder of International Network of Victim and Survivor of Serious Human Rights Abuses (INOVAS). He holds a Master in Sociology and Anthropology from Nepal, a European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation from Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice, and PhD in Law from Nova University of Lisbon. Ram is a longstanding victim activist and commentator/columnist in various Nepali news media for over a decade, and has published articles on his area of topics both academically and in mainstream media (online and print). He teaches, trains, and provides mentorship on missing agenda, grassroots activism, mobilisation, survivor organizations, movement building, transitional and transformative justice, and human rights.

Ram currently is a Research Fellow at Kathmandu University - Nepal Center for Contemporary Studies and Associate Editor of Journal of Disappearance Studies (Bristol University Press). He can be reached at rambhandari3000@gmail.com.