Starting his journey in 2010, Anup Kumar Dey is the youngest celebrated Indian consultant committed to solving problems across industries and institutions with agility and impact. Over the years, AKD has developed a global team of consultants for delivering impactful solutions to all kinds of problems related to management, operations, sustainability, finance and technology with state-of-the-art frameworks. Anup Kumar Dey & Team has not only solved complex problems with fact-based, tested strategies but also delivered long-term outcomes by initiating various projects tailored to the nature of those problems.

As a consultant, Anup Kumar Dey has been shaped by 100+ rigorous training sessions and seminars at world-renowned institutions such as Harvard, Oxford, NASA, UNEP, UNICEF, IUCN, ISRO, etc.  He has been nominated as UNEP Champions of the Earth 2024 and has garnered several global and national recognitions like Six Sigma & Lean Six Sigma (White Belt) 2024 (USA), GIZ ValueLinks Trainer 2024 (Germany), Climate Reality Leader 2024 (USA), BeVisioneers Mentor (The Mercedez-Benz Fellow) 2024 (Germany), UNICEF U-Reporter 2024 (India), NIDM Young Leader 2023 (India), UNDP United Nations Volunteer 2021 (Germany), EvalYouth Young Emerging Evaluator 2021 (India), UGC Junior Research Fellow (Government of India) 2019 & 2020, SVMCM Scholar (Government of West Bengal) 2014 & 2017, LIC Golden Jubilee Scholar 2014, PMUSP Scholar (Government of India) 2012 and Post-Metric Scholar (Government of India) 2012-17. 

Anup Kumar Dey is committed to providing world-class services to his clients, believing multi-dimensional problems require systematic and multipronged solutions with global connections. This brings him to present and publish his projects globally. Araku Kaapi was launched at the Biofach (Nuremberg) 2025, NF Coffeescape was presented at the Tropentag (Bonn) 2025. In 2024, Wetland Economics was accepted at the International Geographical Congress (Dublin). RCOY 2024, LCOY 2024 and Global Youth Statement 2024 were culminated and integrated at the 2024 COY19 (Baku). In 2021, Root to River Gandheswari was presented at the International Youth Conference (California). In 2020, Wetland Ecosystem Services was presented at the International Conference on Environmental Geography and Geography Education (Indonesia), IGU (India) and published in the international journal – Space and Culture, India. Lifelink was presented at the High-Level Youth Summit 2020 (California) in 2020.

Moreover, Anup Kumar Dey has been invited to deliberate on several topics and featured as a public speaker internationally. In 2024, AKD was invited by the UN Economic Commission for Africa to the African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development and the African Youth Consultative Forum on the UN Summit of the Future. Besides, he was a guest speaker at the Vidpeds, a podcast hosted by a consultant and former economist from Johns Hopkins University (USA) in 2023, the Botswana Build Environment Conference & Expo 2024, the Climate Saturday (Zambia) and the Green Finance Hub (Kenya) in 2024.

Anup Kumar Dey is proud to be India’s first consultant to provide world-class service, with expertise across all domains of consulting. He believes in delivering world-class consulting by not only solving clients’ problems but also implementing the solutions.