Mr. Rajive Kumar is a Non-executive, Independent Director at ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited. Mr. Rajive Kumar is an Indian Administrative Service officer of 1981 batch. Mr. Rajive Kumar retired as Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh in 2018, following a long and illustrious career in Government of India and Government of Uttar Pradesh.
Mr. Rajive Kumar holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University, USA and a MSc in Physics from Lucknow University.
Mr. Rajive Kumar has served as a civil servant for four decades in key positions in Government of India and Uttar Pradesh from 1981 to 2018, Principal Secretary Rural Development, Managing Director UPSIDC, Divisional Commissioner of Meerut and Saharanpur Divisions, and District Magistrate of Mathura & Firozabad districts.
In Government of India, Mr. Rajive Kumar served as Shipping Secretary, Special/ Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Additional Secretary /Joint Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat, and as Joint Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance amongst others.
Mr. Rajive Kumar was first Chairperson of Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority from 2018 to 2023. He has served on the Board of a number of companies since 1987 including Indian Oil Corporation Limited & GAIL (India) Limited. His areas of expertise are corporate governance, industrial development and financing, infrastructure development and regulation, finance and human resource development.
Mr. Rajive Kumar was also on the Board of Governors of the World Maritime University (WMO) Malmo in Sweden and served as an expert on the Committee on Administrative and Financial matters at the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) at The Hague, Netherlands.
He is also on the Board of JSW Infrastructure Limited and JSW Jaigarh Port Limited.