Education

Georgetown University

B.S.F.S., International Politics

1997

Harvard Kennedy School

M.P.P., International Development

2000

Podcasts

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64: Devex Digital Media Platform for Social Good With Raj Kumar, Editor-in-Chief [Main T4C Interview]

Raj Kumar is the founding President & Editor-in-Chief of Devex, the media platform for the global development community. A social entrepreneur and digital media executive, he's been a part of nine presidential campaigns and was a co-founder of a successful financial information company. Raj saw the world-shaping potential of Devex..

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134: How to Break Into the Global Development Industry w/ Raj Kumar, Devex [Espresso Shots]

Career Path

Interview Highlights

“When you’re starting an organization, you gotta lick the envelopes you gotta do the basics. And if you’re rushing to the glory too quickly, you might miss the journey. You have to learn to enjoy that journey in a way.”

Best Career Advice

“When you get to the thing that you’re doing and it’s the thing you want to be doing, stick with it and develop some mastery at it.”

Career Challenge

“If I’d been doing this totally by myself, I would have felt differently, but I have three really close friends who started this with me and we were doing it all together. You’re in the boat with others and maybe everybody’s feeling like this is hard work, but at least you’re together. So I think that helped a lot. And I think having some self-awareness, just knowing that there’s some things here I’m good at doing, and if I just stick at it, we’ll eventually get there. I think maybe those have helped.”

Professional Interests

Ian Bremmer, Seth Berkley, Paul Sagoo, Georgetown University, Atlas Corps, World Trade Center Delaware, U.S. Agency for International Development, Devex – International Development, Harvard Kennedy School