 | ||
Sujeet Kumar is a youth leader and entrepreneur of Odisha, India. He is an Engineer, Lawyer and a Policy maker. He serves as Officer Special Duty (OSD) and Special Secretary of the Odisha State Planning Board, a senior policy planning position with Government of Odisha.
Contents
Career
Kumar completed two Bachelor Degrees from India in Engineering from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology and LLB from Sambalpur University. He worked as a software engineer for two years with Infosys Technologies Ltd. Later he shifted to the development sector and worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). At the UNDP Kumar led its ICT for Development Project in Odisha, working to bring digital technology to the poorest people.
He received the inaugural Skoll Scholarship for Social Entrepreneurship, in-order to study for his MBA at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Immediately after completing his Oxford MBA, he joined the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Geneva as a Global Leadership Fellow (GLF). His responsibilities included identifying, selecting and managing the Community of Young Global Leaders (YGLs) from Asia and the Middle East, and managing the education task force, which engages these YGLs in promoting new educational models for rural schools in developing countries. Kumar left the WEF to study for a mid-career Master in Public Administration (MPA) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University for a mid-career Master in Public Administration (MPA).
Upon returning to India he founded a social enterprise, Kalinga Kusum (where he serves as an advisor now) and a startup consulting firm Lex Mantra (where he is a mentor). He founded LexMantra, a legal and business consulting firm focusing on developing entrepreneurial spirit among the youth and encouraging them to create startups.
Kalinga Kusum Foundation is an anti-poverty foundation which has worked with UNICEF to orient Odisha Legislative Assembly members, in the areas of budgeting, child rights, and ease of doing business.