Kumar Iyer

Kumar Iyer is the Director General, Economics, Science and Technology at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. Previously he was the Director General, Delivery from September 2020 to March 2022, and before that a Director General in the Prime Minister’s COVID-19 Taskforce. He was the Chief Economist and a Board Member at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 2019 to 2020. His career has been split between the private sector, public sector and academia.

Kumar has held senior roles in the private sector in management consultancy with the Boston Consulting Group and Oliver Wyman, including as a Partner within the Financial Service Practice.

Kumar was previously a visiting academic at Hertford College, Oxford University. He conducted his post-graduate studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. He was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University where he was also a Teaching Fellow in international finance and macroeconomics.