Avinash Kumar

Dr Avinash Kumar is a historian and civil society leader whose work bridges academic scholarship with policy and advocacy. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Modern History from Jawaharlal Nehru University and was a Charles Wallace Fellow at SOAS, University of London. His academic work has examined literature, citizenship, the public sphere and identity in colonial and post-colonial India, and he has taught at institutions including the Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, and Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. Over two decades, he has held senior leadership roles at Amnesty International, WaterAid and Oxfam. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Equity Studies and works with Focus on the Global South, an activist think tank.