Mathukumilli Bharat

Mathukumilli Sribharat is an Indian educationist and politician who is member of 18th Lok Sabha. He also serves as the President of Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), a private deemed university located in Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. He is also the founder of Hyderabad-based Kautilya School of Public Policy that offers masters and doctoral programs in public policy.

Education
Bharat holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Class of 2010. He also obtained a joint MBA/MA Education degree from Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, Class of 2016.

Family
He is the grandson of M. V. V. S. Murthi who is the founder of GITAM. He is married to Nandamuri Tejaswini, the younger daughter of Nandamuri Balakrishna

Politics
Bharat is a member of Telugu Desam Party having contested from Visakhapatnam Lok Sabha constituency for the first time in Indian General Elections 2019. He lost by a margin of 4414 votes in 2019. For the 2024 Indian General Elections he is again declared as a candidate from Vishakapatnam Lok Sabha constituency and won the election by close to 5 lakh votes.