Director - Disaster Management, World Vision India
Mr. Kunal Kumar Shah has been associated with the humanitarian sector for more than 25 years in fields as diverse as Audit, Finance and providing leadership to World Vision India’s development programmes in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Bihar and Jharkhand. He currently holds the position of Director – Disaster Management and is based at their National Office in Chennai. His current roles include providing leadership to Emergency Response, Disaster Risk Reduction, Environment & Climate Change programmes of the organisation.
He studied Commerce at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and has a post graduate diploma in Business Management.He also has a graduate certificate in Humanitarian Leadership Programme (Deakin University, Australia). He has traveled and worked extensively at the grassroots level in India. He also represents his organisation in several coalitions and consortium’s that are involved in emergency response.