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Dr. Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, Professor, Institute of Education, University of London
Dr. Geeta Gandhi Kingdon is Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London, and Chair of Education Economics and International Development. Awarded a doctorate in economics by Oxford University, Dr. Kingdon is a former research fellow of the World Bank and lecturer at Bristol University. Moreover she is an advisor to the Union ministry of human resource development as well as DFID, European Union, and the World Bank.
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Dr. Madhav Chavan, Co-Founder & Chief Executive, Pratham
An alumnus of Ohio State University, Dr. Madhav Chavan is co-founder and chief executive of India’s most respected education NGO Pratham, (estb.1994) which provides supplementary and remedial education to 3 million children in 21 states countrywide, and publishes its path breaking Annual Status of Education Report (ASER).
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Mark Parkinson, Director, The Shri Ram School, Delhi & Gurgaon
A committed educationist, Parkinson has lived and worked in South Asia for the past 12 years during which he helped promote international schools in Ahmedabad and Dhaka, and has served as visiting faculty at IIM, Ahmedabad, Mudra Institute of Communications and Nirma Institute of Management. |
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Damodar Prasad Goyal, Founder President, Society for Unaided Private Schools of Rajasthan
As founder President of Society for Unaided Private Schools of Rajasthan and National Federation of Unaided Schools, Goyal has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (aka RTE Act) for violating the fundamental right of minorities and citizens to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice. |
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Dr. Sarvesh Naidu, Executive Director, Pathways Schools
An alumnus of Mayo College, Ajmer and Trinity College London, Dr. Sarvesh Naidu is an executive director at all Pathways Schools and a board member of The Association of International Schools, India. In a teaching and education administration career spanning 31 years, Dr. Naidu has acquired international experience in a wide spectrum of schools. |
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Ashish Rajpal, Founder and CEO, iDiscoveri Education
Ashish is the Founder and CEO of iDiscoveri Education, an innovative education company focused on learning and leadership. An alumnus of XLRI and Harvard School of Education, Rajpal quit a successful international corporate career to follow his passion in education. Apart from providing iDiscoveri business leadership, he creates and facilitates curriculum on teacher development, leadership, innovation, and organization transformation and has led the ideation and conceptualization of the iDiscoveri’s flagship offering, XSEED, a complete practical school curriculum and teacher training program now being implemented by over 700 schools across India and abroad. A former student of Howard Gardner, his areas of interest also include doing‐classrooms, differences in children, and non‐authoritarian leadership. |
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Vivek Ramchandani, Co-ordinator, Australian Sports Outreach Program
The founder-principal of The Shri Ram School, Delhi and director of the Dehradun-based Ramchandani Education Consultants Pvt. Ltd, he has several decades of teaching and top-level education experience in K-12 education. A former director of the Agha Khan Education Service and Unicef India, Ramchandani is currently chief coordinator of the Australian Sports Commission which is rolling an Australian Sports Outreach Program in India. |
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Dilip Thakore, Publisher & Editor, EducationWorld
A former Barrister-at-Law, Thakore is the former founder editor of Business India and later Businessworld. In November 1999 he promoted EducationWorld. |
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Pramod Sharma, Director, Genesis Global School
A former principal of the T.N.Academy (Gangtok), Y.P.School (Patiala) and Mayo College (Ajmer), Sharma acquired several years of teaching experience in Afghanistan and Nigeria prior to taking charge as director and principal of Genesis Global in 2009. |
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Abha Adams, Advisor, Education, Step by Step School, Noida
An English literature postgraduate of Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi with an M. Phil in drama and theatre arts from the University of Leeds, Ms. Adams served The Shri Ram School for 13 years including several years as principal. Currently she is Advisor (Education) of the Step by Step School, Noida. |
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Ashok Agarwal, President, Social Jurist Forum, Delhi.
An alumnus of Delhi and Agra universities, Ashok Agarwal founded Social Jurist, a society of activist lawyers and social workers in 1999. Since then Social Jurist has filed more than 100 PIL (public interest litigation) writs mainly in the Delhi high court and Supreme Court on education-related issues to get judicial backing for public education reforms. |
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Dr. Parth Shah, President, Centre for Civil Society, Delhi
Mr. Parth J. Shah is the president of the Centre for Civil Society (CCS), an independent Delhi-based think tank. Awarded a Ph.D in economics by Auburn University, USA, Dr. Shah served as a professor of economics at the University of Michigan before returning to India to start the Centre for Civil Society in 1999. |
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Amy Seefeldt, Academic Dean, Woodstock School, Mussoorie
An alumna of Taylor and Emory universities, USA, Amy Stefield began her teaching career as head of history department at Whitefield Academy, Atlanta. Subsequently she has been an exam reader for the Advanced Placement (Plus Two) in European history and has taught history at the higher secondary level for 13 years. |
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Sunisha Ahuja, Country Director, India, Room to Read
A postgraduate in childhood development of Delhi University, and former technical specialist with CARE India and ]senior consultant in alternative schooling to the District Primary Education Program in India, currently Sunisha is country director, Room to Read - a globally-acclaimed San Francisco-based not-for-profit organisation operating in nine Asian and African countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, South Africa and Zambia), where it has established over 10,000 children’s libraries. |
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J.S. Rajput, Former Director of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
J.S. Rajput is former director of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and a well-known educationist. |
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Rajat Rakkhit, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO
A Ph D in electrical engineering of Maryland University, Rajat Rakkhit is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Elucido Media Networks, a venture capital funded Silicon Valley and India based company. Prior to starting Elucido Media, he was a vice president and general manager with Cypress Semiconductor. |
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Vipul Sobti, Head Business Development & Marketing (North India), Mexus Education
An experienced academician and educator, Vipul Sobti is head business development and marketing, north India, Mexus Education, an education innovation enterprise based in Mumbai. Currently over 6 lakh students in India, south Asia, UAE and Canada are benefiting from Mexus’ innovative education products and solutions. |
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Sanjeev Bolia, Founder & Managing Director at AFAIRS Exhibitions & Media Pvt. Ltd.
Sanjeev Bolia is the founder of AFAIRS Exhibitions and Media Pvt. Ltd, Asia's leading education exhibition & conference organizers. Sanjeev, a Graduate from the prestigious St. Xaviers College, Kolkata is equipped with an "International Trade Fair Management" Certification from IUBH, Bonn Germany. He has an experience of over 18years in organisng more than 350 education exhibitions and event all across Asia. He has conceptualized unique exhibitions for Indian Schools, Universities & Colleges all across India and abroad to showcase the strengths of Indian Education System. |
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