Sudip has over 15 years’ experience working on India-Australia bilateral relations across sports, education and health, and has been part of various advisory groups including Victoria’s India Strategy 2018 and Australia’s India Economic Strategy 2035. He shares his time at Aii, while also operating as a consultant within the Australia-India sports, education, and government space. He previously served as the India Adviser at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this, Sudip worked across Education, Trade, Sports and Tourism departments at the Victorian State Government as a public servant, after working at the Essendon Football Club and the Australian Football League (AFL) leading and driving their Indian and multicultural strategies.
Sudip founded the Australian Rules Football Association of India (AFL India) in 2014 and continues to lead their work across 11 states of India to develop the Australian sport in India through a sport for development approach and has also captained Team India at four AFL International Cups (2008 – 2017). He also led the formation of the inaugural Australian Kabaddi team that participated at the Kabaddi World Cup 2016 and was recently elected as the Founding President of AusKabaddi, the governing body for Indian sport of Kabaddi in Australia. He is currently leading work on the three pillars outlined in the joint prime ministerial statement by the Australian and Indian Prime Ministers. Sudip has a Bachelor of Mass Media (Journalism) degree from University of Mumbai and MSc Sport Management degree from Loughborough University (UK).