Manoj Kumar

Overview

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. He is also a Fellow of the US based Aspen Global Leadership Network.As the founding CEO it is Manoj who disrupted the NGO space in India by being the first to create a sustainable model of outsourcing government programs and demonstrating successful large scale implementation with efficiency and outcomes. Similarly he forged long term partnership with organizations like Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to not only do path breaking work with over 100000 government school going children but broke new ground in public policy changes through action and outcome based advocacy.After taking Naandi to a scale and prominence that makes it one of the top notch not for profits in India today Manoj has broken it down into separate for profit social businesses. These address some of the most pressing problems of the country today ensuring elementary school children learn providing safe drinking water training and placement of unemployed youth in corporate jobs and creating value and niche markets for small farmer agriculture produce.