Ramapati Kumar serves as the Director and President of CEED Foundation. He is widely known as a public policy expert, social entrepreneur, and a campaign strategist with the overall belief in sustainability and inclusivity based human development. He has immensely contributed in solving multi-dimensional environmental and developmental challenges and building collaborative platforms for change. He brings over two decades of experiences in sustainable community development, setting policy discourse, capacity planning for government and private stakeholders and project management in diverse domains and settings. Mr. Kumar is an MBA with specialisation in social development and has immensely contributed in the areas of the just energy transition, sustainability based solutions, and climate resilient livelihood in diverse geographies.