User:Prof. Avanish Kumar/sandbox

Avanish Kumar was born in #Hazaribag, did his studies in #St Xaviers School, Hazaribag. His intermediate was from St Colomba's College. He joined B.Sc. #Anthrpology at #HansRaj College, #University of Delhi. He did his MSc. MPhil and PhD from University of Delhi, #Delhi.

Before joining #Management Development Institute, #Gurgaon in 2006, he served as a faculty for a brief period in #TERI School of Advanced Studies. At #Development Alternatives (DA) he undertook several assessments, including Asia Pacific Programme Capacity 21 (UNDP), designed Process Monitoring System for World Food Programme, India and authored chapters in the State of Environment-South Asia (UNEP); Prior to DA, he worked at IPE (Enterprise London School of Economics) and Center for Development Economic, Delhi School of Economics.

He has extensive experience of working with the communities in the poorest areas, especially in Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh. As a core team member, Prof. Kumar was resource person to Administrative Reform Commission, GoI on “Good Governance in Public Sector”; He was responsible for planning and designing of Mid Career Training (Phase III) of Indian Administrative Services Officers for DoPT with Duke University; he designed Poorest Areas Civil Society Programme (DFID, Phase II). Dr. Kumar was member Academic Council Advisor to the Public Policy, Law & Governance Programme, Central University of Rajasthan. Currently he is Advisory Member SEEP, BIMTECH Greater Noida; Expert Member of Curriculum Moderation Board (CMB), International Inst. of Democracy & Election Management, Election Commission of India and Board of Academic Studies at TERI University. Dr. Kumar is jury of 2good4good Corporate Social Responsibility award for Economic Times and KPMG; Resource Person to National Rural Livelihoods Mission, GoI since 2014. He was member board at large of  Society for Human Ecology, Washington (2010-11 and 2011-12).

He has delivered lectures at various academic institutes/universities, multilateral organisations, corporate houses, government departments. He has presented papers and chaired sessions in several national/international conferences/seminars in  Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Pakistan, France, India. His publications include journals,  Development in Practice, Quantity and Quality, Enterprise Development and Microfinance, International Journal of Organisational Analysis and several peer reviewed journals. He writes column in #Governance Now.