Ajai Kumar

Mr. Ajai Kumar is the President - Government & Industry Affairs at JKCement. Prior to this, Mr. Kumar had served as Head - South Asia for Government & Industry Affairs in Corteva Agriscience, Executive Vice President - Corporate Affairs in Deepak Fertilizers & Petro-Chemicals and Head - Corporate Affairs in Dupont - Pioneer.

Mr. Kumar was the Country Coordinator for India in the International Maize & Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and was instrumental in setting up Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA). He was the first Head of Government & Legal Affairs at BISA.

He has a Master’s degree in Physics (Electronics) from the University of Allahabad, India and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia in Political Economy.

He joined the Indian Forest Service in 1986 and served in various positions both within the state and the Indian Government Ministries of Environment & Forests, Defence and Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. He left the Indian Forest Service in 2010 to pursue a career in the corporate world.