Delhi/Canon City, Colorado (USA)-based public health evangelist Dr. Rahul Mehra is the founder-promoter of Tarang Health Alliance (THA, estb.2016), a non-profit promoted with the mission to develop innovative content and train teachers to implement THA’s comprehensive health education curriculum — covering physical, mental and social […]
International early years’ educator Dr. Rebecca Isbell teaches the Ph D programme in early childhood care and education (ECCE) at the East Tennessee State University, Johnson City (USA). Despite also being a busy motivational speaker and ECCE consultant, Dr Rebecca Isbell has authored 13 books and penned numerous essays on creativity, […]
Jyoti Arora is the founder-principal of Mount Abu Public School, Rohini, Delhi (MAPS-R, estb.1998). In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2019-20, MAPS-R is ranked #55 (out of 300) schools in Delhi NCR and was conferred a Grand Jury Award for campus architecture and design.
Rahul Ranjan is co-founder and CEO of LeapLearner India (LLI, estb.2020) — the India partner of the Israel-based coding education company LeapLearner Inc, which has 1 million subscribers in 20 countries worldwide. Under a recently signed agreement, LLI will offer computational thinking programmes through courses in coding, robotics, apps […]
Vineet Gupta is the promoter-managing director of the Delhi-based Jamboree Education Pvt. Ltd (estb.1995), a pioneer test prep company for students aspiring to study abroad, and a founder-trustee of the highly-reputed, privately-promoted liberal arts Ashoka University (AU, estb.2014). Within a short span of time AU has risen high in […]
Pune-based Nivedita DasGupta is the country head of Miracle Foundation India (MFI, estb.2011, head count: 55) — the Indian division of Austin (USA)- based non-profit Miracle Foundation (MF). The parent foundation was registered in the millennium year to provide for orphaned and other vulnerable children in approved Child Care Institutions (CCIs) […]
T.K. Chandra Mouli is director of Grafiprint Pvt. Ltd which runs the W.Q. Judge Press (estb.1952), Bangalore, one of the garden city’s oldest printing presses specialising in printing stationery, books and magazines, especially for education institutions. Moreover he is a multi-skilled polymath with a vast repertoire of skills spanning public speaking, […]
Shobhit Mathur is executive director of the Delhi-based Vision India Foundation (regst.2014) and co-founder and dean of the Rashtram School of Public Leadership, located within the newly promoted Rishiwood University, Sonipat (estb.2018). A highly qualified alum of IIT-Bombay, University of Washington and ISB-Hyderabad, Mathur previously worked for Amazon.com in Seattle and […]
Mumbai-based Deep Udeshi, chairman and managing director, Educational Software Technologies (EST, estb.2001) and Vibrant Publishers, Colorado, USA (estb.2010), has been a publisher of academic, test prep books and online solutions in India and the US for more than two decades. To meet continuous demand from test takers, the two […]
An English literature graduate of Delhi University with multi-industry experience in advertising, garments manufacture, IT industry and also an international bridge player, Kiran Nadar is chairperson of the eponymous Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA, estb.2010). This museum houses India’s largest collection of modern art comprising 7,000 exhibits of art, sculpture, installations […]
Siddharth Mathur is director of the Mumbai-based National Academy of Science and Creative Arts Llp (NASCA, estb.2017, headcount: 60) which offers a unique hands-on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) curriculum mapped with national and international boards to schools in India. Over the past three years since it was promoted, 48,000 students in […]
Praveen Tyagi is the Mumbai-based managing director of PACE (estb.1999) and co-founder (with Jatin Solanki) and CEO of EduIsFun Technologies Pvt. Ltd (ETPL, estb.2015). Involved with Indian education for the past 22 years, Tyagi is the driving force behind PACE’s good track record in preparing school-leavers for admission into the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) […]
Eminent educationist and former ISRO scientist Dr. Yogeshwar Kosta is the Rajkot (Gujarat)-based vice chancellor of Marwadi University (MU, estb.2016). Sprawled across a 52-acre world-class campus, this greenfield soft-launched private university provides 22 undergrad, postgrad and doctoral study programmes in engineering, law, science, business management, computer applications, pharmacy and physiotherapy to 9,000 — including […]
Kolkata-based Kunal Vora is the founder-director & CEO of SHRM (Hindi for ‘hard-work’) Biotechnologies Pvt. Ltd (estb.2006), a training and skills development company which offers students — undergrads to doctorate scholars — short-term study programmes in biotechnology, pharmacy & life sciences and provides research, incubation and placement assistance. SHRM Biotech is also the sole […]
Former India basketball star Kunal Maria is founder and CEO of the Corvuss American Academy (Corvuss, estb.2018), a trail-blazing, sports-focused co-ed residential school for children in the 11-17 years age group sited in Karjat, a two-hour drive from Mumbai. It s set to provide highly professional training in seven sports — basketball, cricket, […]
Math prodigy Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash Jonnalagadda (20) is a final year B.Sc student of Delhi’s top-ranked St. Stephen’s College. He is also founder of Exploring Infinities (EI, estb.2018), a proprietary firm promoted to boost children’s cognitive development and popularise speed mental arithmetics and games through workshops and year-long courses in schools.
Copenhagen-born Allan Kjaer Andersen is the Bangalore-based director of the new age K-12 Chaman Bhartiya School (CBS) — the first education initiative of the Gurgaon-based real estate heavyweight Bhartiya Group
(annual revenue: Rs.1,300 crore). Construction of two of the three integrated complexes of the state-of- the-art Bhartiya City sited on a 125-acre estate in suburban […]
Coding education evangelist Karan Bajaj is the Mumbai-based founder-CEO of WhiteHat Jr Pvt. Ltd (estb.2018, headcount: 200), an edtech start-up offering individual subscribers aged 6-14 years age-appropriate computer coding programmes designed to enhance their reasoning, problem-solving, logical and analytical thinking skills. The company’s online live one-on-one study programme is accessible on a laptop using a […]
Abhishek Kumar is the Delhi-based regional director (South Asia) of ONVU Technologies, a Switzerland-based IT solutions provider with three business verticals — ONCAM (surveillance solutions), ONVU Learning (video/AI-enabled teaching-learning solutions), and ONVU Retail (consumer behaviour analytics). In 2019, the company’s ONVU Learning made a big bang entry into Indian K-12 education with its video […]
Engineer turned film director Hitesh Kumar is founder of Splat Media Pvt. Ltd, a Delhi-based new media and design company with a headcount of 50 employees including graphic designers and VFX editors. Last September, Kumar launched the company’s Art Illume project to bring media students, artists and designers on one platform to create illumination art, […]
Espoo-based Pia Jormalainen is the CEO and co-founder of New Nordic School (NNS, estb.2018), a Finland-registered education solutions company offering turnkey pre-primary to secondary education solutions to clients worldwide. The company’s objective is to introduce the Nordic Baccalaureate programme that has the famed Finnish school curriculum at its core.
Kavita Sahay Kerawalla is the Mumbai-based vice chairperson of the VIBGYOR Group of Schools (estb.2004), which currently runs a chain of 39 K-12 schools (27 Vibgyor Kids & High and 11 Vibgyor Roots & Rise) in seven states countrywide with an aggregate enrolment of 55,000 children.
Newspeg. Kavita Kerawalla was in Bangalore in December (2019) to […]
Ajit Chauhan is chairman of the Noida-based Amity University Online (AUO, estb.2005), the online education division of the top-ranked private Amity University (AU, estb.2003) which has nine campuses in India and 13 abroad. AUO is a global online university offering UGC-approved undergrad, postgrad degree and diploma study programmes in management, media and journalism, arts, […]
Ashish Jhalani is the global chief technology officer and managing director of the Mumbai-based Square Panda (India) Pvt. Ltd (SPI, estb. 2018), the India subsidiary of Square Panda Inc, USA (estb. 2014). The California-based company designs auditory, visual and tactile learning systems to enable children in the 2-8 age group to develop reading readiness […]
Kolkata-based Achin Bhattacharyya is the founder and CEO of notebook.school (promoted by ABJ Eduventures Pvt. Ltd in 2018), a digital content portal that enables children to learn subjects in their syllabus subjects through engaging videos and text notes. Since its launch a year ago, the portal has attracted more than 600,000 views, and its app […]
Gurgaon-based Ayush Jaiswal (23) is the youthful co-founder of Pesto Tech (India) Pvt. Ltd (estb.2017), which owns pesto.tech, a career accelerator online platform. The company offers a 12-week intensive training programme to upskill and prepare Indian software professionals for international tech careers. Following completion of the online programme, diploma awardees work for […]
American born Daniel Graves is the founder-director of the Florence Academy of Art (FAA, estb.1991), Italy, a globally reputed school of classical aesthetics and art education. An alumnus of the Maryland Institute of Art and Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Art, Florence, Daniel Graves, who moved to Florence in the late 1970s, has […]
Dr. Akhil Shahani is managing director of the Mumbai-based Shahani Group of education institutions which over the past 60 years has promoted 24 institutions including Mumbai’s iconic Thadomal Shahani Engineering, HR, KC, and National colleges. Although these are minority institutions promoted under Article 30 (1) of the Constitution and can reserve 49.5 percent of seats […]
Sumeet Mehta is the co-founder and CEO of LEAD School, a comprehensive K-10 school academic system designed by researchers of Leadership Boulevard Pvt. Ltd, a “double impact bottom line” — social impact and for-profit — Mumbai-based company. It provides whole-school academic solutions including textbooks, curriculum-mapped ready-to-use lesson plans, on-demand teacher development and student assessment services […]
New York-based Shib Shankar Dasgupta is the idealistic founder of Shreeja India (estb.2017), an NGO working to prevent child marriages, human trafficking and violence against girl children in West Bengal through football-based education and development programmes. Currently, Shreeja provides football coaching to 120 tribal girls aged 10-18 years in 12 villages of the state’s Birbhum […]
Educator and reading habit evangelist Dalbir Kaur Madan is founder of the Delhi-based OneUp Library, Bookstudio and Learning Lab (estb.2011) which offers children access to a vast repository of books and curated educational content in addition to linguistic, social and cognitive experiences in child-centred reading and learning environments.
OneUp also offers library services to households and […]
Delhi-based Jigyasa Labroo (27) is the innovative founder of Slam Out Loud (SOL, estb.2016), a not-for-profit social enterprise which provides co-curricular creative arts including poetry, storytelling and theatre education to children of socio-economically disadvantaged groups. SOL has reached 50,000-plus children countrywide to date, through collaborations with several artistes including author Anupa Lal, poet Kyle Louw […]
Professional storyteller Shreya Biswas is founder of the Bangalore-based Katharangam (estb.2013) which offers specially curated storytelling workshops to school teachers, NGO professionals, corporates and students to enhance their teaching, business and communication skills. Also a patron of the Bangalore Storytelling Society (estb.2013) and advisor of Chennai’s annual International Storytelling Festival, Biswas has thus far taught […]
Sanjay Gupta is the Gurgaon (India)-based global CEO of EnglishHelperInc, a Massachusetts (USA)-headquartered social enterprise that is using technology to improve the English language proficiency of children in government schools.
Newspeg. In July, EnglishHelper signed an agreement to introduce its Right to Read programme in 65,000 government schools of Maharashtra over the next two years. The […]
Astad Parakh, the 82 years old octogenarian is the silent force behind the not-for-profit “BCPT English E.Teach” initiative (estb.2009) that distributes free custom-made animated audio-visual interactive content adhering to the State prescribed syllabus to teach English to 6.4 lakh children studying in Maharashtra’s vernacular-medium municipal and government schools. The ace marketing consultant and founder […]
K. Mythili is headmistress of the Coimbatore Corporation Middle School, Masakalipalayam (CCMSM), established in 1956 as a primary and upgraded into an upper primary (class I-VIII) school in 1966. Since she took charge as headmistress in November 2017, she has pulled out all the stops to transform CCMSM, which currently has 140 students instructed by […]
Sikar (Rajasthan)-based serial entrepreneur Shiv Ram Choudhary is the founder of Codevidhya India Pvt. Ltd (estb.2016), his latest venture that offers K-X schools a comprehensive and well-designed computer science coding learning programme comprising specially written textbooks, teacher training, assessments, project mentorship, skill certification and compatible online resources developed by the company. Committed to the cause […]
Mumbai-based Rakhee Chhabria is the founder of Teachers Help Teachers (THT, estb.2017), a social enterprise to empower educators. THT is an online Facebook support group and website where teachers can interact, avail guidance on pedagogies, share information, upload and download resources, become aware of employment opportunities and upgrade their knowledge. Membership of this FB group […]
Singapore-based chartered accountant and investment analyst Thomas (Tom) Robinson is president and CEO of the US-based Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International (estb.1916). This is a globally respected association that accredits and certifies member business management education institutes (aka B-schools) round the world.
Currently, AACSB has a membership of 1,700 B-schools worldwide of […]
Wendy Kopp is the iconic co-founder and CEO of Teach For All (TFA, estb.2007), a New York-based global network of 50 independent voluntary organisations soldiering to end education inequality by recruiting talented college graduates/professionals to teach for two years in underperforming government and private budget schools worldwide. Over the past 12 years, TFA and its […]
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