Ms Pant has worked for several years on customary laws and legal pluralism pertaining to natural resources management in India and Nepal and has published extensively. Her work has largely been in the domain of law, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, right to water, protection of traditional knowledge, regional cooperation in conservation, international environmental and trade laws and decentralized governance. She has worked with several non-profits such as the WWF – Nepal Programme, Centre for Environmental Law, ATREE and PILSARC and has also been part of a multi-country programme coordinated by IIED, UK on Protecting Community Rights over Traditional Knowledge and continues to be associated with them.
She has obtained her doctoral degree from the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and her thesis focused on Legal and Non-Legal Mechanism for Protection of Traditional Knowledge Systems related to bio-genetic resources.