Mr. Gyawali has been a visiting professor at the UN University in Japan and is Academician of the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology as well as chairman of Nepal Water Conservation foundation. He has also been a research scholar at the East-West Center in Hawaii, the Queen Elizabeth House in Oxford, the London School of Economics and the International Environment Academy in Switzerland. He conducts interdisciplinary research which focuses on the interference between the technology and the society, primarily on water, energy, natural resources as well as ethics and philosophy, basically from the perspectives of cultural theory of plural rationalities.

Mr. Gyawali is currently serving on the advisory committee of the Nepali associations such as Biogas Support Program and to international organizations such as UN World Water Assessment Program, STEPs Center/IDS Sussex, as well as US Pacific National Northwest Lab’s multi-country study Human Choice and Climate Change. He has also served on several government commissions related to Himalayan water and energy resources development. He has served as a member of the panel of experts for the Mekong River Commission reviewing its basin development plan and has also published extensively both academically and in the popular press on water resource, environment and development issues. In addition, he is a guest senior research scholar with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Luxemburg, Austria, and a member of the Global Forest Expert Panel on Forests and Water set up by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO).