April 1, 2022 Staff Report
Multidisciplinary institute will be called the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute to honor transformational gift
Noted businessmen and philanthropists Raj Gupta and Steven Klinsky have made a joint $10 million gift to Johns Hopkins’ multidisciplinary India Institute, which will be renamed in their honor. The Gupta-Klinsky India Institute (GKII) at Johns Hopkins University will mobilize Hopkins faculty, staff, students, and alumni in their research and partnership with government, academia, the private sector and NGOs across India to advance human knowledge and develop bold, world-changing ideas.
“For nearly a century, Hopkins has trained health care professionals and partnered with the Indian government to improve and save lives,” said Ron Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins University. “Our recently launched India Institute is designed to unite our efforts across our entire university. We are truly grateful to Raj Gupta and Steven Klinsky, whose generosity will ensure the best scholars and practitioners can pursue this critical work in India, at Hopkins, and around the world.”
GKII is directly overseen by Sunil Kumar, university provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, with a faculty steering committee that advises its operations and represents several academic divisions, including the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the School of Medicine, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Nursing, the Carey Business School, the School of Advanced International Studies, and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
“We are excited about the future for GKII,” said Provost Kumar. “Raj Gupta and Steven Klinsky have seen the great potential in the institute, and their investment will transform our work, allowing us to enhance existing partnerships and to develop new ones across India, across health and many other fields.”
Faculty affiliated with GKII include experts in medicine, public health, nursing, engineering, economics, business, data science, artificial intelligence, public policy, social sciences, and humanities. More than 150 Johns Hopkins faculty members and researchers are involved in India-related work currently, with more than $205 million of investment in programs and 100 in-country partners in the past five years.