Dr Radha Kumar

Radha Kumar is the former Chair of UN University Council. She is a specialist in ethnic conflicts, peacemaking and peacebuilding, often from a feminist perspective. Previously, she was Director General of the Delhi Policy Group, the first independent think tank in India, the Director of the Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Jamia Millia Islamia University and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.  She served as a member of the Indian government’s Group of Interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir. She has also been on the Board of the UN Institute for Training and Research and the Foundation for Communal Harmony (Ministry of Home Affairs, India). Kumar has written six books and numerous journal articles on peacemaking and democracy and holds a BA and MA from Cambridge University and a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.