Dr. Amitabh Kundu is currently Professor Emeritus at LJ University, Visiting Professor at Maulana Azad National Urdu University. He was Distinguished Fellow at Research and Information System for Developing Countries. He was Regional Advisor on Poverty at UNESCWA, Beirut during 2017 and Consultant to the Government of Sri Lanka during 2016. Until January 2014, he was Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been the Dean of the School of Social Sciences and has served as a member of National Statistical Commission during 2006-08. He is also the chairperson of Samarthan, a large grassroots level institution working for the poor and vulnerable.

Currently, he is the co-chair of two Labour force surveys being conducted by the Ministry of Labour and Employment and advising the governments of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on their statistical system and urban development. He chaired the committees on Swatch Bharat Mission (Rural), Housing Start Ups (Reserve Bank of India), Slum Database and Housing Shortages (Ministry of Housing and Poverty Alleviation). He has been chairpersons of the Post Sachar Evaluation Committee and Diversity Index Committee, set up by the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Sciences Po and Maison des Sciences de L’homme in Paris, University of Kaiserslautern and University of Wuerzburg in Germany. He has worked as Director at various institutes in India and is in the Editorial Board of Manpower Journal, Urban India, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, Indian Journal of Labour Economics. He has about thirty-five books and three hundred research articles, published in India and abroad, to his credit. His recent study is on Educational Development in North East India, sponsored by UNESCO. His edited books Rethinking Prosperity, Accessible Housing for South Asia and India Discrimination Report have come out in 2022-23.