P Santosh Kumar

Director of Legislation
International Cooperative Alliance

Mr. P. Santosh Kumar serves as Director of Legislation at the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) where he provides comparative analyses of cooperative laws and legal services to member organizations. He advocates to assert the distinctness of cooperatives through legislation, regulation, and public policy and supports the work of the ICA Cooperative Law Committee. Previously, he worked at the ICA Asia and Pacific office where he coordinated regional committees on cooperative law, policy, youth, cooperatives in educational institutions, and regional and national meetings on cooperative development. He holds a master’s degree in international trade law from the University of Turin, Italy, postgraduate diplomas in International Trade and Business Law and International Law & Diplomacy, and an undergraduate law degree from Amity Law School in New Delhi, India. He is a lawyer admitted to the Bar Council of Delhi in India.