Praveen Kumar is presently the Director General and CEO of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs. He has done B.Tech and M.Tech, both from IIT, Kanpur, and M.Phil in Social Science from Panjab University. He has also done PGDBA from Annamalai University and PGDPA from Indian Institute of Public Administration. He is an IAS Officer of Tamil Nadu cadre of 1987 batch and has headed various responsibilities in State and Central Government in multiple Departments such as Finance, Elections, Industries, Education, Corporate Affairs, New and Renewable Energy, etc, retiring as Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in Government of India. He has also headed a number of State and Central Public Enterprises, apart from being Nominee Director in PSUs, and Member of Councils/ Boards of Governors of Educational Institutions such as AICTE, IIMs, IIT, IISERs and UGC Committees. He was awarded the “PM’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration” for the year 2019, for his role as Prabhari Officer of Virudhunagar district, which saw the district attain the number one position amongst all aspirational districts.