[3] He is a board member of the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, co-chair of Know in Violence in Childhood, and a member of the leadership councils of both the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Global Women's Institute, The George Washington University, Washington DC.
[5] At Harvard, Kumar's Ph.D. supervisor was Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.[6] Kumar teaches economics and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and is a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, the Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University and S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai.
[10] Kumar is also a member of the Executive Board of India's leading environmental protection organisation – the Centre for Science and Environment.
[11] In 2011, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India constituted an Audit Advisory Board (AAB) of which Dr. Kumar was a member.
He has also been associated with the preparation of national human development reports in a number of countries including Bhutan,[13] Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar and Serbia.