Nishit Kumar is the founder and Managing Director of Centre for Social and
Behaviour Change Communication (SBC3). In addition to his role at SBC3., he is:
∙Member on Board of Studies, Extension & Communication, SNDT Women’s
University, Mumbai
∙Visiting Faculty, PG Program in Development Management, SPJIMR
∙On the Executive Committee of Catalyst 2030 NAISE India Chapter
∙Heads the Social Stock Exchange Task Force of Catalyst 2030 NAISE India
Nishit Kumar has a post graduate degree in Business Management, and has done
programmes at IIM, Ahmedabad. He has 43 years of experience, 15 of which he
spent in leadership positions in advertising, winning awards every year. He worked
for 10 years in the corporate sector, where his last assignment was as CEO of an IT–
ES company.
For the past 20 years, he has been with the development sector. His 11-year-stint
with CHILDLINE India Foundation is well known in the sector. At CHILDLINE, he
developed a passion to work on the issue of Child Sexual Abuse and was
instrumental for the first draft of and the advocacy for what was to be passed in the
Indian Parliament as the POCSO Act. He developed award winning films and
communication for CHILDLINE, including the internationally acclaimed film on Child
Sexual Abuse, ‘Komal’.
The programmes he created at CHILDLINE India won several national and
international awards. He used Social and Behaviour Change Communication
techniques to create a unique story-telling approach to help primary school children
stay safe from sexual abuse. Nishit set up state-of-the-art IT-based communication
centres for CHILDLINE, making the 1098 helpline number the world’s largest helpline
for children.
