Development Commissioner
Dr. PRAVEEN KUMAR, Indian Trade Service.
MBBS
Dr Praveen Kumar is a career bureaucrat from the cohort of Indian Trade Service , 2012. He is holding the charge of Joint DGFT at Mumbai since November 2022, and additional charge of head of the regional office of DGFT at Nagpur (RA Nagpur) and Development Commissioner, MIHAN Special Economic Zone, Nagpur. Earlier, he had a tenure as the Deputy Director General of Foreign Trade, at the DGFT Headquarters in New Delhi , where he was contributed in conceptualizing and rolling out the RoDTEP Scheme in collaboration with Ministry of Finance. He was also an attending member of the RoDTEP Committee. Prior to joining the Government of India, Praveen had a brief stint at an European strategy consulting firm in its healthcare division. Praveen graduated with an MBBS degree from the Delhi University in 2006. His interests are in international trade , supply chains and industrial policy. He has visited Slovakia, Switzerland and the USA in his official capacity.
