Kabir Kumar

Kabir serves as Senior Director of the Walmart Foundation, where he leads the Foundation’s Community Pillar. He oversees strengthening local community through over thirty initiatives, ranging from Walmart’s global disaster philanthropic response and resilience programs to supporting Walmart’s 1.2 million US associates through employee assistance, scholarships, giving and volunteerism to localized community giving through grants, cause marketing and other initiatives at over 4000 facilities around the US. Kabir joined the Walmart Foundation in 2014. Prior to Walmart, Kabir worked with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, where he helped raise over $2 billion. He supported both individual philanthropists and corporate philanthropic services to over 100 corporations. Internationally, he spent five years living and working in India and London, where he established nonprofit organizations focused on community development and skills based volunteerism. Kabir also worked for several years with an investment house in London, investing in US, UK and Indian markets, and helping create the emerging markets investment strategies. Kabir has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Brandeis University a Master of Arts Degree in Sustainable International Development from The Heller School of Social Policy and Management.