He has worked an Ombudsman of Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut and the editor-in-chief of Global Peace International Journal. He has written more than one hundred books and four hundred articles on greatest personalities of the Indian sub-continent, especially Gautama Buddha, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and on various social, political, educational, cultural and academic issues to his credit.[2]
A well-known Indologist and the former Vice-ChancellorofCCS UniversityMeerut, India, Kumar has been associated with several national and international academic, cultural, educational, peace and social bodies/institutions/organizations. As an International Professor and a Cultural Ambassador of India, he has delivered more than four hundred lectures at various institutions and universities of the world on subjects related to Asian values, civilization, culture, Gandhian philosophy, Indology, international co-operation and understanding, leadership, way of life, women's empowerment, world peace, youth affairs etc.
As a Peace Worker, Kumar started Peace Review – an international journal of peace studies in 1998 and worked as its Editor-in-Chief. In 2001 he has started Global Peace –another international journal of philosophy, peace, education, culture and civilization. Besides, he has inspired hundred and thousands of people all over the world for their commitment towards non-violence by signing pledges.
Between 1993 and 2015 Ravindra Kumar has organised a number of seminars, symposiums and workshops at national and international level on subjects related to value education, religion and politics, non-violence and democracy, morality and ethics in public life, human values and rights, education, peace and development, Gandhian philosophy.
Teacher, Department of Political Science, SD College, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh (1982-3), Research Representative/Senior Research Officer, Sardar Patel National Memorial, Ahmedabad/Sardar Patel Works Committee, New Delhi (1985–90), Member Secretary and Chief Editor of Vithalbhai Patel Works Committee (1990–92), Vice Chancellor, CCS University, Meerut, India (1994), Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus, Thailand (1996-2001), Visiting Professor/Scholar at more than one hundred Universities/Institutions of higher studies and research around the world including Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines), Universities of Thammasat, Silpakorn, Mahidol, Kasetsart and Chulalongkorn (Thailand), Universities of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia Science, Penang (Malaysia), Universities of Mandalay and Yangon (Myanmar), Udayana University, Bali (Indonesia), Institute Kern, Leiden University (The Netherlands), Universities of Aalborg, Aarhus, NIAS Copenhagen and Odense (Denmark), St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Jaume-I University, Castellon (Spain), University of Torino (Italy), University of Vienna (Austria), North Florida University, Jacksonville, Florida (USA), Universities of Autonomic Latin-American, Antioquia, EAFIT, Pontificia Bolivariana and Externado de Colombia (Columbia), Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo –the UEES, Guayaquil (Ecuador, South America), University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban (South Africa)(1995-2019), Ombudsman, Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut, India (since 2013), Patron/Chairman, Director and Coordinator for international relations of many universities and institutions of higher studies and research in India and other countries of Asia.
Honorary Advisor, Institute For Inspiration & Self Development, Kolkata, India since 2006
Member, Advisory Board, Media For Freedom, USA since 2007
Member, Indian Language Newspapers Association (ILNA), India since 2009[3]
Member, Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association, since 2009
Member, Action Asia, since 2009
Patron, Stallion College for Engineering and Technology, Chhutmalpur, Saharanpur, India since 2010
Member, Gandhi Serve Foundation, Germany since 2010
Member, National Executive, Indian Language Newspapers Association (ILNA), India, between 2010 and 2012
Patron, Ruminations –a bi-annual international journal for analysis and research in humanities and social sciences ISSN2229-6751, India since 2010
Member, Executive Council, Uttarakhand Sanskrit University, Haridwar (Uttarakhand), India, between 2011 and 2013
Patron, The EDUQUEST –a bi-annually international-refereed journal in Education ISSN2277-3614, JKC, Purulia, West Bengal, India since 2012
Member, Advisory Board to Techno LEARN –a bi-annually international journal of educational technology ISSN2231-4105, New Delhi, India since 2012
Patron, LM Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow, India since 2012
Member Academic Council and the Coordinator for international affairs, Shridhar University (Rajasthan), India, between 2012 and 2017
Founder Director, Institute of Indology and Oriental Studies, Shridhar University (Rajasthan), India since 2012
Coordinator for international relations for the universities and institutions of higher studies and research under the Baise-Chumphon and Krabi Sister’s Cities Projects, between 2012 and 2017
The Ombudsman, Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut (UP), India and 17 other institutions along, since 2013
Chairman of the Committee for Classification of Affiliated Colleges with the Uttrakhand Sanskrit University, Haridwar, 2013
Patron, International Centre of Nonviolence (ICON), Sydney, Australia since 2013
Patron, The Ashram Gandhi Puri, Bali, Indonesia since 2014
Patron, Adi Shankara Vedanta Pratishthanam, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India since 2015
Advisor/Council Head and Convener, Gandhi Peace Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal since 2018
Member Advisory Board of Acid Survivors & Women Welfare Foundation –ASWWF, India since 2019
