Kunal Pal Joins GKII as Executive Director

After an extensive search by the GKII faculty steering committee, we are excited to announce the appointment of Kunal Pal as our next executive director.

Pal joins GKII with more than 15 years of leadership experience and has most recently acted as the Executive Director of the International Innovation Corps since 2017 and the Applied Data Fellowship since 2018 at the University of Chicago. While there he led interdisciplinary management teams in the US and India to perform social impact, partnered with more than 100 organizations, and secured long-term engagement with local government and schools.

Director Pal’s incredible experience with business development, operations management, fundraising, and public relations will allow GKII to merge the explosive growth we’ve experienced in fostering impactful global partnerships through various programmatic initiatives.

“I’m excited to tackle this new role at GKII. The mission of bringing together the best of Johns Hopkins and India is incredibly appealing to me,” Pal said. “We have so much to learn from each other, and I’m ready to work with the faculty and leverage my skillset to advance a great cause.”

“On behalf of the entire faculty steering committee, I’m happy to welcome Kunal to GKII,” said Faculty Co-Chair Dr. Sara Bennett. “He’s highly qualified with extensive higher education experience and I have no doubt about how much Kunal can offer GKII and the rest of our community at this stage of our organizational development.”