Adi Kumar

As a senior partner at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Adi Kumar advises CEOs, governors and other senior public and private sector leaders on topics that include strategy, operations, technology and organizational effectiveness. He joined the HSUS Board of Directors in 2020 and serves on the Governance and Human Resources committees.

At McKinsey, Kumar led the firm’s Global Public Sector COVID-19 response, as well as the firm’s Government Transitions Initiative, which he founded. He served in the White House from 2009 to 2012, where he oversaw the implementation of the $800 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and served as an adviser to the president, vice president and White House chief of staff. More recently, after the March 2021 passage of the American Rescue Plan, he served as a White House senior adviser on implementing the $1.9 trillion act. He has also worked on or advised three U.S. presidential transition teams, as well as several gubernatorial transition teams. Kumar, who holds an MBA from Stanford University, is an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University.