Mr. Anand Kumar has been a career civil servant. He joined Indian Administrative Service in the year 1984 and was allotted to Kerala State. He holds an M. Phil degree with distinction from the University of Delhi and MBA degree with honours from the University of Queensland, Australia. During his career he has held many important positions in Tourism, Infrastructure, Industry, Biotechnology, Finance, Revenue, Elections and Governance sectors under the State and Federal Governments. During initial stages of his career, he served as District Collector and Magistrate of Idukki and Calicut Districts in Kerala. He was assigned challenging duty of managing the relief camps on Iraq – Amman border and repatriation of Indians during Kuwait – Iraq war of 1990. While in Kerala Tourism, he was instrumental in setting up a new Institute in Tourism and Travel Management, District Tourism Promotion Councils and also giving a new direction to branding, promotion and marketing of Kerala Tourism. He was part of the team which launched ‘God’s Own Country’ Campaign and planned introduction of House Boats in Kerala. He served as Deputy Election Commissioner in the Election Commission of India and conducted landmark Bihar Legislative Assembly elections in 2005. He was appointed as Chief Technical Adviser for Nigerian General Elections 2007 by UNDP. He served UNDP, Nigeria for the purpose from 2006 to 2008 and was instrumental in first civilian transition in that country. He has since acted as a resource person for UNDP on Elections and Governance having done assignments in Cambodia, Lebanon and Belgium. He designed international campaign ‘Find What You Seek’ that received First Golden Gate Award in Berlin and domestic campaign ‘Go Beyond’ while working as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. In Infrastructure sector, Mr. Kumar scripted first Port Privatisation Policy for the country, set up National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL), Government of India Public Sector Enterprise as founding Managing Director. As Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of India, he gave new direction to renewable energy bidding process and was co-chair of International Steering Committee for setting up International Solar Alliance. As Secretary, Ministry of Culture he empasised on cultural mapping of the states. Today, besides being Chairman of RERA, Delhi and Chandigarh he is an active member of ‘Compassionate Community’.