Shailendra (Shail) Kumar is the Founder and President of Nalanda 2.0 and author of "Building Golden India: How to unleash India's vast potential and transform its higher education system. Now" Prior to writing the book, Shail was an administrator at two world-class multidisciplinary research universities: UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. Earlier, he was co-founder and CEO of two start-ups and executive in several Fortune 500 and Silicon Valley high technology companies. Alumni leader since 1991, he was President of the IIT Foundation and co-founder of the Pan IIT alumni movement in the US. He is an alumnus of the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington and IIT Kharagpur.
