[3] Prior to this, Madhukar had worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., with a group focused on building parliamentary capacities in various countries.
[4] Madhukar started his professional career in 1993 as an investment banker with ICICI Securities and Finance Company in Mumbai, where he worked on the disinvestment of large public sector enterprises.
[5] At the invitation of the Government of Karnataka in early 2000, he co-founded and managed the Akshara Foundation, an education initiative focussed on Bengaluru's children.
Madhukar was an Edward S. Mason Fellow at Harvard University,[7] where he earned a Master’s in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
[8] In March 2008, Madhukar was one of the Indians to be named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.