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He has appeared on the lists of Thinkers50, World's Best B-School Professors, 50 Most Influential Business School Professors. In 2011, he received the Global Village Award by Thinkers50 for the person who contributed most to the business community's understanding of globalization and the new frontiers established by emerging markets. Following six Case Centre awards for best selling cases, in 2014, Kumar received their Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method Award. In 2017, he was inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame for making a lasting and vital impact on how organisations are led and managed.

From 1991 to 1994, he was assistant professor of marketing at The Pennsylvania State University. From 1995 to 2003, he was professor of marketing at International Institute for Management Development. From 2003 to 2013, he was professor of marketing at London Business School. From 2013 to 2016, he was a member-group executive council and head of strategy at the Tata Group. He was fired from this role in 2016. From 2017, he is the Lee Kong Chian professor of marketing at Singapore Management University and a Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute.

Kumar was educated at La Martiniere Calcutta school, and received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Calcutta University in 1980, and his Master of Commerce degree from Shivaji University in 1983. In 1986, he completed his MBA at the University of Illinois at Chicago and in 1991, received his Ph.D in Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management in Northwestern University.

Nirmalya Kumar (born 8 March 1960) is Lee Kong Chian Professor of Marketing at Singapore Management University and a Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute. He has served on the Boards of ACC Limited, Ambuja Cements, Bata India, BP Ergo, Tata Capital, Tata Chemicals, Ultratech, and Zensar Technologies.

Kumar has over the past 30 years amassed an important collection of paintings from Bengal 1900-1947, especially of the artists Hemendranath Mazumdar, Jamini Roy, and Rabindranath Tagore. Selections from his collection have been borrowed for exhibitions by Asia House London, Bauhaus Museum in Dessau Germany, Museo delle Culture Lugano in Switzerland, National Gallery Singapore, and Tate Britain. In 2012, he received an honorary fellowship from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for his support of South Asian art.