Biography

Dr Suraj Kumar is a Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (JSGP) at the O.P. Jindal Global University.

He is an “expert” on Sustainable Development Goals and Governance Reform – SDG Advisor to Governments of Chhattisgarh and Tripura and the national Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institute (2013-14), Senior Fellow at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies (RGICS) (2019-20) and Adjunct Faculty at the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), an autonomous think tank and capacity building centre for India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs. He is also a member of the SDG Board at Deendayal Research Institute (DRI) a think-and-do tank at Chitrakoot. 

He has worked in the development sector since 1993 at senior levels (17 years with the UN) in design and implementation of regional, national, and subnational programmes on human development, urban governance, skill development, promoting women’s leadership and capacity development.

Dr. Kumar has written extensively on SDGs and is co-editor and contributor for a book on Social Development and SDGs in South Asia, published in September 2019 by Routledge UK. He occasionally writes a column for The Telegraph and is now working on a prospectus for a book on SDGs beyond 2030 with Routledge UK