Manoj Kumar
Chief Executive Officer
Kallam Anji Reddy Chair
A Robert McNamara Fellow of the World Bank, Manoj Kumar shifted career from banking to social sector with a pit stop in micro-finance, before taking over as CEO of Naandi in 2000 AD. Last year he was made a Fellow of the US based Aspen Global Leadership Network.
As CEO of Naandi Foundation, Manoj feeds 1.2 million hungry children every day, provides safe drinking water to 3 million people in rural areas, runs over 1700 schools guaranteeing quality education to over 100,000 children and works with 15,000 adivasi small farmers to export over a million kilograms of coffee every year. Most of this is done by convincing governments to outsource inefficiently run programs for the poor to Naandi.
Under his leadership Naandi also became the first and largest grantee of the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, USA specifically focused to become a game changer for India's education scene.
Having taken Naandi to a scale and prominence that makes it one of the top-notch not-for-profits in India today; Manoj is now busy breaking down Naandi he built into separate for-profit social business ventures. Having created a social business venture for provision of safe drinking water, his eyes are now set on doing the same for education in India.
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