Nurturing Leaders For Tomorrow

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Lt Gen Surendra Kulkarni is an Old Boy of Mayo College. He joined in 1964 and completed his MSc in March 1970. He has served in the Army for nearly four decades. He was commissioned into the Armoured Corps in 1975. In his long and distinguished career, he has commanded the largest forces and held some of the most prestigious assignments. In recognition of his special contribution, he has been awarded a Vishisht Seva Medal twice, an Ati Vishishta Seva Medal and finally the highest peacetime distinguished service award in the Armed Forces, the Param Vishisht Seva Medal by the President of India.

Parallel to his Army career, he has pursued his academic interests. He is an economics graduate from Fergusson College Pune. He was a post graduate UGC Merit scholar before he joined the Army. He has four Masters Degrees including an M Phil degree. He would be one of the few officers to have been sent abroad thrice on academic assignments. He has taught at the Armoured Corps Centre and School, Ahmadnagar, Institute of Armament Technology, Pune and the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.

In Mayo, he was in Colvin and Rajasthan Houses. He was a keen sportsman, who played Cricket, Tennis, Squash, Football and Hockey. #HappyTeachers #BrewingKnowledge #SGEF19

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Soldier Educationist

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Lt. Col. Sekhar is a soldier educationist who has been in leadership positions as a soldier, educationist, and as an academician for over 30 years. A post-graduate in Chemistry as well as in English, he has had a distinguished career in the Armed Forces, heading Sainik/Military Schools, Instructor in the Indian Military Academy, Registrar of autonomous Colleges. After taking premature retirement from the Army, Lt. Colonel Sekhar was Director (Education and Empowerment) with Atul (CSR) Ltd wherein he established the Atul Institute of Vocational Excellence from scratch. He was also Director& Head of Schools, Alpha Group of institutions, Trichy.

A regular speaker, moderator, and presenter in conferences/study groups, he now is the Executive Director of Aditanar Educational institutions, whose 9 Colleges and Schools have been uplifting rural India since 1965. #HappyTeachers #BrewingKnowledge #SGEF19

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Igniting the Spark in Learners

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Lina Ashar did her primary schooling in England before moving to Australia, where she acquired her Bachelor’s degree in Education from Melbourne’s Victoria College. In 1991, Lina came to India on a year-long sabbatical from college, while connecting with her roots, she landed up taking a school job in suburban Mumbai, an experience which changed her life. Back then, the education system in India was still grappling with a straitjacketed approach to education, leaving no scope for the overall development of the child, which was a complete contrast to the milieu of what she had studied. Lina chose to stay back in India to change the antiquated approach to education which existed then. Her conviction to offer an education which sets the child as its centre led her to start her first preschool in Bandra (Mumbai) in the year 1993 with 25 students.

The journey from one Kangaroo Kids Preschool to a network of Kangaroo Kids Preschools and Billabong High International Schools across 29 different cities in India as well as in Dubai, Maldives and Qatar has been a phenomenal one. Lina’s unique approach, injection of potent solutions and radical processes to ensure that the quality of education is improved was instantaneously well received and noted. Lina has been promoting and practising ‘topic-based learning’ since 2002, something that the Indian media lauded the Finland education system for, very recently. Lina has been extremely passionate about creating a purpose of learning and allowing children to be thinkers, innovators, problem solvers and to orchestrate experiences that will result in their overall development.

With an intention to spark human greatness in every student, Lina was the first in the Indian education industry to introduce a learner-centric methodology and introduce innovative ways of learning by providing an integrated activity and theme-based learning. The industry has recognised and awarded Lina several times over for her unique and meaningful contributions to the sector, notable among them being:

• A leading woman in education at the Women Leaders in India Awards 2015 by iiglobal
• Nationwide winner of the Best K12 innovative curriculum by Franchise India 2015
• Alumni Excellence winner by Australian High Commission 2015
• Voted by over 500,00 people to the MTC Global Top 10 Thinkers’ – 2015 among more than 35 nominees from different walks of life whose work has a significant impact in their sector, as determined by the independent Board of Jury at MTC Global HQ.
• Lifetime Education Leadership Award by EduWorld 2014
• Key Speaker at the symposium of Indian Career Education and Development Council (ICEDC) 2014 at the American School of Bombay
• Panellist at The Economic Times Future of Learning Summit 2014
• Awarded Leading Women Entrepreneur Recognition at several fora between 2010 and 2014, including Times of India and iGlobal.

Lina dreams of a society in which every child enjoys the right to a joyful childhood and quality education. 

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Investing in Schools

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Imran is the Managing Partner at Gaja Capital (www.gajacapital.com).

Gaja is India’s leading mid-market growth capital firm. Gaja’s aim is to help create India’s next generation of market leaders and has invested in sectors such as Education, Consumer, and Financial Services.

Imran has over 18 years of experience in Private Equity, Pharmaceuticals and Technology services. Prior to Gaja, Imran worked in a variety of roles of increasing responsibility at Dr Reddy’s and Wipro Technologies. At Gaja, Imran leads investments in the Education and Consumer clusters. He has been closely involved with Gaja’s investments in SportzVillage (Sports management), EuroKids (Pre-K and K12), John Distilleries (AlcoBev), CL Educate (Supplemental Education), Indus World Schools (K12), Educomp (Educationdiversified) and Millennium Schools (K12).

Imran has post-graduate degrees in software engineering from BITS-Pilani and an MBA from IIM-Bangalore. 

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Experience meets Excellence

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Dr. (Ms.) GunmeetBindra, Principal, Welham Boys’ School, an alumnus of the Delhi School of Economics and Calcutta University, is the first woman to head a boys’ boarding school in India.

An accomplished educationist with over 30 years of experience in teaching and school administration, Dr.Bindra has held many coveted positions including member of the CBSE Governing Body, as well as the CBSE Affiliation Committee. She is also the British Council School Ambassador in India and a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Boys’ Schools Coalition (IBSC), as the current Vice President of the IBSC-Asia Pacific region.

The numerous awards conferred upon Dr. Bindra include the CBSE National Award in 2014 presented by the President of India, the Bharat Vidya Vibhushan Puraskar presented by the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, the Pride of Doon Award by the Doon Citizens Council, presented by the Governor of Uttarakhand, the Rajiv Gandhi Education Excellence Award, the Uttarakhand Ratan Award, Outstanding Achievement  Award 2016 for Education and Social Leadership and the National Award for Instructional Leadership in the Principals’ category of the awards at the NDTV-Educomp Education Awards 2016.

Under Dr Bindra’s leadership, Welham Boys’ School was recognized as the No.1 rank in the parameter for ‘Education Management and Leadership’ in a survey conducted by Education World magazine and C-Fore, for the Education World India School Rankings Awards for three years consecutively, i.e., 2016, 2017and 2018.

Dr Bindra has been a consistent achiever since her school and college days, President of Indraprastha College Students’ Union, Finance Secretary, Spic Macay, Delhi Chapter and Secretary of the B.Ed. Society, recipient of the Cadbury’s Award for the Best All-Rounder in school and the ‘The Most Versatile Student’ Award in college. Dr Bindra was captain of her school and college Hockey teams and was also selected for the Indian Hockey team at the Indian Women’s team camp besides being a swimming champion.

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Building brands from scratch

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Bodhisatwa Dasgupta or Bodhi as he’s popularly known has had his fair share of the advertising cake. He’s worked at Ogilvy, Widen+Kennedy, JWT, Grey and a bunch of others. And after having a slice of humble pie, he has quit pursuing the only one thing he’s perhaps half-decent at – building brands from scratch. Bodhi is obsessed with the power of honest communication and tries to humanize the brands he works with.

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Bodhi’s other love is his daughter, who he has successfully taught how to make a half-decent omelette and chicken curry. When he’s not working with exciting start-up brands, he’s writing books he’ll never finish and napping. Bodhi is currently consulting with MAD about Ed.  #HappyTeachers #BrewingKnowledge #SGEF19

Creating 21st-century Future Ready Schools

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With over 18 years of experience, currently working as the Managing Director of Ebix Smartclass Educational Services, Divya is a seasoned education industry leader with experience in creating innovative school solutions, building and managing the relationship with schools, academic support, training, and operations. She leads a team of more than 1000 people, managing over 5000 schools and impacting over 2.5 million students. Divya is passionate about creating 21st-century Future Ready Schools and bridging the digital divide. She believes the purpose of educational technology is not only to utilize existing tools to augment learning but to apply scientific knowledge and advances in learning theory to the application of assistive devices in the classroom. She feels fortunate to be working in the field of education as it has given her a chance to contribute towards building the future of the country.


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Impacting the Lives of Children, One Step at a Time

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Annie sits on the board of Nehru World School, Ghaziabad as Director of Recruitment and Development. She is the founder of Flying Patang School Development Service. A  life long learner, she is passionate about impacting the lives of children in and out of education.

This has included coaching WHO Senior Managers to deliver in-house training; recruitment, developing leadership programmes and leading a study tour to London focusing on standards and development planning for Shiv Nadar Schools; Writing leadership materials for the British Council; Consulting for Heritage Xperiential School, Gurgaon and being part of the recent FICCI Arise delegation to London.

Annie was part of the founding leadership team of STIR Education which operates in Government schools across India and Uganda reaching 200,000 teachers and 6 million children. Annie is an accredited Master Trainer for the British Council as well as being a registered British Schools Overseas inspector and has been an Associate inspector for KHDA, the Dubai inspection service. She is an alumnus of SOAS, the University of London where she specialised in Indian Politics and History and St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford and holds her National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) from the National College for Teaching and Leadership in the UK.

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Of Science & Innovative Digital Pedagogies

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Anantha Duraiappah took the position as inaugural Director of the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) based in New Delhi, India in 2014. A science-policy pacesetter, with over 33 years’ experience, he now plays a key role in positioning UNESCO MGIEP as a leading research institute on education for peace, sustainable development and global citizenship.

Anantha received his PhD in economics specialising in mathematical and computational modelling from the University of Texas in Austin, USA. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed books and journal articles and presently sits on the editorial boards of a number of international peer-reviewed journals. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS), a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and a visiting Professor at the University Of Tokyo, Japan.

In his previous post at the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), he initiated and played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). He was the Co-Chair of the Biodiversity Synthesis Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and founding director of the Inclusive Wealth Report released at the Rio+20 Summit in 2012.

Dr Duraiappah is presently focusing on strengthening the science-policy guide in Education by researching and exploring how the neurosciences of learning can contribute to developing emotional & intellectual intelligence through innovative digital pedagogies.

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When Excellence & Passion meet

His Excellency Shri V. P. Singh Badnore (born 12 May 1948) is the Governor of Punjab, India and Administrator, Union Territory of Chandigarh. He was a member of Rajya Sabha, elected on 17 June 2010. He was earlier a member of the 14th Lok Sabha and 13th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Bhilwara constituency of Rajasthan.

He was chosen as the Member of Parliament from Bhilwara (Lok Sabha constituency) from tenure 1999-2009

Positions Held

: 1977-1980, 1985-1990, 1993-1998, 1998-1999 Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
: 1988-1999 Cabinet Minister Irrigation, Government of Rajasthan.
: 1999-2004 Member Thirteen Loksabha
: 2004-2009 Member Fourteenth Loksabha
: 2010-2016 Member Rajya Sabha
: 1999-2000 Member Committee on Energy and Defense and Convener of its Sub-Committee on Action Taken Report 2001
: Convener, Sub-Committee on Electricity Bill, 2001
: Convener, Sub-Committee on Nuclear Energy 2001-2002
: Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Stock Market Scam 2001-2003
: Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of External Affairs Member
: National Advisory Committee
: NCC Member, Library Committee Member, National Tourism Board
2004-2009 Committee on Energy Member,
: National Tiger Conservation Authority July 2010
: Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Environments and Forests May 2012 – Sept. 2014
: Member Committee on Petitions Aug. 2010 – Aug. 2011 and Aug. 2012 – May 2014
: National Advisory Committee on Tourism, 2002-2003
: National Committee on NCC
: Wild Life Preservation Board, Rajasthan for the last 20 Years
: Steering Committee, “Project Tiger”
Board of Governors, Mayo College Ajmer since 1985
: Collaboration Committee of Mayo College General Council; Vice President,
Bhartiya Janta Party, Rajasthan, 1989-1990 and 2001- 2010
: Mayoor School, Abu Dhabi since 2013
Founder Member and Executive Member, Indo British Parliamentary Forum;
2003-2004; Co-Chair of the Indo US Parliamentary Forum;
Worked in London(UK) in New Caxton Encyclopedia in 1970;
Worked in Escorts Ltd. (India) in the Management Cadre 1970-1977 and 1980-1981
Founder Member / Vice President
: Mayoor Abi Dhabi School, 2012-2013
: Mayoor Chopasni, Jodhpur, 2012-2013 and
: Mayoor School, Raipur, 2012-2013, 2015
: Jan. 2015 – Participated UNFPA-IAPPD Conference at Bangkok
: Sept. 2015 – To attend Climate Change and Renewable Energy Conference of Parliamentarians at London, UK
: Oct 2015 – Leader of 5 Members MP’s Delegation to Japan for furthering bilateral relationship sponsored by Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan
: On August 22, 2016 – Took over as the Governor of Punjab and Administrator of UT Chandigarh

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SAMBHAV for community development

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Amit Lodha is a 1998-batch IPS officer of the Bihar cadre. He is presently the Inspector General of the Border Security Force, posted in Jaisalmer. He has been honoured with the Excellent Contribution Award for successfully initiating a police-public partnership for better policing in Bihar’s Nalanda district during his tenure as the superintendent of police there.

He launched SAMBHAV- an organization under the aegis of the Nalanda district police to tap the power of the youth towards community development. The organization successfully engaged the youth in tackling important social issues. Showcasing exemplary leadership, he has played an instrumental role in a number of successful police operations. He has been the recipient of various awards and commendations, including the acclaimed President’s Police Medal of Gallantry and the Internal Security Medal.

The 3rd edition of ScooNews Global Educators Fest revolves around the theme of ‘Education for Sustainability: Moving On from Conformity to Creativity’. 

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The 2019 edition of SGEF will bring together the brightest minds to ponder on how to leverage on our illustrious legacy and move towards a sustainable education that prioritises creativity over conformity.

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The art of educating vibrant minds

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Ms. Nisha Bhakar has over two decades of experience in education at the level of strategy, policy and implementation. Ms. Bhakar has explored curriculum and pedagogy across various popular boards – CBSE, CAIE and PYP-IB. She has been involved in planning, designing and reviewing curriculum, developing and implementing teacher training focusing on a thematic approach to teaching-learning and developing resource material for Oxford University Press and Pearson Education along with the administrative responsibilities of running a school across various cities of India.

Ms. Bhakar is also engaged as an Advisor and consultant to CBSE and IB schools and has travelled around the world to understand the school and college systems in other countries.

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She was awarded the ‘The Best Educationist Award’ in 2012 by the International Institute of Education and Management, Delhi and the ‘Eminent Educationist Award’ by the National and International Compendium, Delhi as well as the ‘Asia Pacific Global Achievers Award’ by the Global Achievers Foundation, Delhi. Hailing from Rajasthan, reading, travelling and adventure sports, especially white-water rafting, are some of her areas of interest.

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The Power Of Edtech

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Director, Extramarks Education India Pvt. Ltd. and CEO, Extramarks Education Foundation, Ms. Poonam Singh Jamwal strongly believes that EdTech innovation can help imbibe pedagogical principals and good practices universally. Technology platforms help tap each learners’ unique potential, cater quality at scale, measure outcome and sustain the quality and individual uniqueness paradigm. A leader with a vision and drive, she has been pivotal in the success of Extramarks.

This energy packed strategist has taken Extramarks Education Digital Solutions-K-12 Curriculum based 2D, 3D, VR, AI-based modules, assessments, and platforms, to enhance and energise the learning space in the school and beyond school. The latest innovation which taking the education world by storm is a digital learning ecosystem – Total Learning, a One-App-One-Solution for all learning requirements. There is a seamless continuation of learning from School to Home connecting all stakeholders on a single platform.

Spearheading the learner journey from foundation years to Career, she also leads Career Counselling Cell and the Competitive Exam Prep (IIT JEE/NEET) vertical through 40 offices pan India and online packages. Today over 9000+ schools, 1 lakh teachers and 9 million+ students benefit from Extramarks Solutions across all K-12 national and international curricula.

With her strong belief that quality education is the right of every child, she drives Extramarks Education Foundation to take Ed-Tech solutions to the unprivileged learner and making him future ready. With this gumption to bring equity in quality education and take the Ed-Tech solutions to the remotest corner, the recent CSR projects, have reached out to 45,000 + girl students, 1500+ teachers, 130+ schools, 11 states with 12 corporate partners.

She leverages her two decades of rich corporate experience to connect like-minded people and organizations towards creating quality education access for all.

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A Chevening Scholar and alumnus of University of Bradford, Poonam holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), Masters in Education (MA) and PG Journalism. Business Strategist, Youth Marketing Expert, Disrupter, Speaker, Writer, Trainer, Painter.
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The Power Of Plan

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Where would you go out to play, if every park in the city would throw you, and your friends out – on the reason that playing in a playground, will ruin the grass. To the 16-year-old Chirag, that didn’t fit well, and somehow under the influence of the internet, he started a campaign on Facebook, reached out to his other friends, and started a community playground development project. By working with their hands and converting a wasteland in their residency – a bunch of kids ended up changing the rules of play – and got featured into a daily local – sharing the story, how Chirag started a Football academy for over 50 players in the city and running it for free.

The passion only grew, when he decided to drop out of the Chartered Accountancy program and shift to Bangalore to study Psychology. Only a few months in Bangalore, and having missed working with the kids, he joined a Youth Football Academy as a Coach and picked up bringing play to kids as young as 4-year-old. His next Eureka moment came. when he realised that the immersion while playing increased for kids when he started to address cones as trees. He kept his experiments running, and soon, when the other discourses in his University challenged his way of thinking, he did the next big thing. For a mere proof of concept, he cycled all the way from Bangalore to Jaipur, a journey of 2300kms in 11 days. This was followed by another epic, where he ended up cycling from Jaipur – West to East India – Bhutan – Myanmar – Thailand – Cambodia – Laos – Vietnam, around 13000kms in 8 months, alone, by crossing all land borders. The journey concluded as a researched understanding learning patterns across cultures and later translated into designing and facilitating noncompetitive sports and play sessions for a Kindergarten in Bangalore. Luckily, in 2017, he was back in Jaipur, and this time got summoned by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, to head Rajasthan in a program called Mission 11 Million, in collaboration with FIFA, to host FIFA U17 WorldCup in India, and bring the joy of Football to 11 Million kids around the country.

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Currently, Chirag Singal runs a project called “Giraffe Uncle”, which gets kids to have more efficient time playing outdoors, in a non-competitive, inclusive, and emerging design. He has been invited to TEDx, IIM A, NITs, BITS, numerous schools, and colleges to share his story and insights for the work, and promotes his stand for the practices we bring to the playground for our toddlers.

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Educators for Excellence

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Dr Jagpreet Singh, Headmaster of The Punjab Public School, Nabha did his schooling and college from Ajmer. He is a Post Graduate in History and M.Ed. and Doctorate (Doctor of Literature). Dr Singh possesses 30 years of rich Administrative experience in the field of Education. He has been awarded the Best Teacher in the year 2001 by the Chief Justice of Rajasthan. He was also awarded the Best Teacher in September 2003 by the Lions Club, Ajmer and Eminent Educationist Award by International Institute of Education & Management, Delhi in 2011. In 2013, The International Institute of Education & Management, New Delhi has conferred the most coveted Rajiv Gandhi Education Excellence Award, for his achievements in the field of Education. Dr Singh has been awarded the Jury of the Derozio Award for Education and Human Enrichment by the Council of the Indian School Certificate Examination in January 2014.

He was awarded the “Best Principal Performance Award” awarded by Global Achievers Foundation in June 2014 and also Asia Pacific Achievers Award awarded by Indian Solidarity Council in June 2014 in an award ceremony held at Tashkent – Uzbekistan, Russia. He has been awarded International Gold Star Millennium Award by Global Achievers Foundation awarded by Mr Korn Dabbaransi, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand at Bangkok in February 2015. He has also been awarded the Bharat Vibhushan Samman Puraskar awarded by Global Achievers Foundation for his outstanding individual achievement & distinguished services to the nation on the occasion of National Seminar held in 2015 at Dehradun (Uttarakhand). Recently he has been awarded the Best Personalities of India Award by Friendship Forum, New Delhi.

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Before joining this institution he was Vice Principal, Mayo College, Ajmer. His association with Mayo College, Ajmer has been since 1989 onwards till March 2011. He started his career as a teacher in 1986.
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Leadership for a world that deserves quality education

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Former Chairman, National Progressive Schools’ Conference (NPSC) | Advisor, Lung Care Foundation, Delhi | Chairman, Council for Global Citizenship

Mr Ashok Pandey is working in the School sector for the past three decades. He did Masters in Physics from Allahabad University and Consultancy Management from BITS, Pilani. He served as Chairman, National Progressive Schools’ Conference (NPSC) (2015-17). Author of several articles, projects and research papers, his educational travelogue- The Pedagogical Life-Essays in Educating India, was published in 2017.  He also edited: A design framework for future schools- a collection of essays by school teachers) in 2018. His next book Launch your Principal Leadership is under publication.

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Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by Ferguson Humanitarian Foundation International, Inc.,(USA), Advaith Foundation Leadership Award, and President’s Award’ for his contribution in education, Mr Pandey has a keen interest in quality education premised on virtues of character and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is actively engaged in inter-faith dialogue and peacebuilding. He is an active partner to the UN’s #Act4SDGs campaign and #TeachSDGs Ambassador.  He has led educational leaders delegation to Malta, USA, UK and Australia.
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One man army hitting the bull's eye

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Anand Kumar is an Indian mathematician and a columnist for various national and international mathematical journals and magazines. He is best known for his Super 30 programme, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches economically backward students for IIT-JEE, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). By 2016, 366 out of the 420 had made it to IITs and Discovery Channel showcased his work in a documentary. He has been invited by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to speak on his globally acclaimed effort to mentor students from the underprivileged sections for admission to IIT.

In 2003, when Super 30 started its journey, 18 out of 30 students competed. The very next year, the number jumped to 22. In 2005, it improved further to 26. Continuing the trend, 28 students made it in 2006 and 2007. However, the ‘magic moment’ came in 2008, when the result was an astonishing 30 out of 30. Super 30 had hit the bull’s eye. It was ‘a dream come true’ for Anand and his team. Super 30 has done it again in 2009 and 2010.

All 30 students from Super 30 qualified with good marks for JEE Advanced 2017.

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A biopic title “Super 30”, based on his life will be released shortly. Hritik Roshan stars as Anand Kumar in this movie directed by Vikas Bahl. The film captures the trials and tribulations of Anand’s life and the challenges he faced in order to set up his ‘Super 30’ institute. It is an inspirational story of his struggle and achievement, and how one man makes a difference in the lives of underprivileged students.

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Craig Alan Johnson: Quest For Excellence

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Craig has spent 40% of his life in India. He attended a Boarding School in Panchgani (a small hill station south of Pune) for 12 years and since 2010 has been back in India serving as the Head of the American School of Bombay (ASB).

Prior to returning to India, Craig, his wife, and his three sons were in Brazil where Craig served as the Principal and then the Headmaster of two different International schools. In his capacity as the Head of the School, at ASB, Craig endeavours to stay engaged with his students and faculty by teaching classes, coaching sports’ teams, and leading professional learning communities.

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A regular presenter and workshop facilitator, around the world, on a variety of Leadership and Educational topics. Mr Johnson is a passionate advocate for Innovation and Relevancy Education and also the author of numerous articles on a variety of subjects, a screenplay set in Mumbai soon to be made into a movie, and has published a novel titled, Wave Watcher.
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