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Indian origin lawyer Lalitambika Kumari rejoins USISPF
She will oversee the Forum’s higher education collaborations, manage institutional partnerships, and support the philanthropic work of the USIN Foundation.
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Malvika Choudhary - Wed, 27, Aug 2025
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Lalitambika Kumari / Hertie School
The US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) announced the return of Indian-origin Lalitambika Kumari to the organization.
Kumari has been appointed as manager of higher education, corporate social responsibility, and Parliamentary Engagements (India), where she will oversee collaborations in higher education, manage institutional partnerships, and support the philanthropic work of the US-India Nexus Foundation (USIN).
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Kumari earlier worked with USISPF as an associate between May 2021 and October 2022, where her responsibilities included communications and budget management. Before that, she served as a policy analyst at the Energy Policy Research Centre in Australia, focusing on regional policy, and worked on the policy and research team of Baijayant Panda, Member of Parliament, contributing to parliamentary interventions such as Private Members’ Bills and Question Hour, and research on data protection and foreign policy.
Her career also includes an internship with NITI Aayog, India’s apex public policy think tank that advises the government on economic and development priorities, in 2016, where she contributed to a report on legal reforms in Rajasthan with an emphasis on landholding laws.
She also worked with World Wide Fund for Nature-India in 2013–14 in the Education Department on environmental education and coordinated the Earth Hour 2014 campaign.
Kumari holds a master of public policy from the Hertie School in Berlin (2018–20), where she specialized in public management and social policy, and completed an exchange program at the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy in 2019.
She earned her bachelor of laws (LL.B.) from the Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi (2014–17) and a bachelor of arts in psychology from Lady Shri Ram College for Women (2010–13).
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