Prof. (Dr) Suresh Kumar is a former Head and Coordinator (2015-19), Department of African Studies, and Centre for African Studies, UGC Area Study Program. He is the Chief Editor of Peer-Reviewed & UGC index journal of Indian Journal of African Studies and Africaindia and traveled widely more than 40 countries in the world for research and teaching assignments. He is the Chief Collaborator of the Indian Council of Social Science Research-National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ICSSR-NIHSS) International Joint Research Project on Religion, Yoga, and Education in India and South Africa (2016-2018).

He deliberated his opinion on The New Moroccan Constitution Guarantees the Promotion of Moroccan Autonomy Initiative before the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) of the United Nations Organizations at New York on 6-11th October 2012. He articulated his opinion on different aspects of Africa before the Ronald H. Brown Institute (2008), World Policy Council (WPC, 2014), European Commission of African Studies (ECAS), Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA, 2015), IBSA, BRICS-IKS (2016, 2018 and 2019) and many others. About 146 articles have been published in different books, journals and newspapers. He has actively contributed his opinions on India and Africa in the different international media channels of BBC, Aljazeera (English), ABC (USA), Yomiuri Shinbun (Japan), and All India Radio. He has completed LLB successfully out of his sheer interests from the University of Delhi, India in 2016.