Professor & Head Department of Educational Finance and Director of University Grants Commission, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India
Consultant and expert with various international forums like UNESCO, UNICEF,Asian Productivity Organisation, British Council, Commonwealth, SAARC, World Bank and Govt. bodies. She was member of the Commonwealth Education Ministers Drafting Committee of post secondary forum for SDGs and Member signatory to the Declaration of Research between India and Germany.
Professor & Director (Global Initiatives), VIT Bangalore, India
Dr. Brijesh Nair is currently working as a Professor and Director (Global Initiatives) of the VIT Bangalore campus, the sixth campus of Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT). Under this role, he is taking care of setting up this new campus in Bangalore. Prior to VIT Bangalore, he worked as a Professor and Director of International Affairs and Global Initiatives at O P Jindal Global University (JGU) pioneering the efforts of internationalization of the University. He also has 7 years of experience as Assistant Director (International Relations) in VIT where he took care of collaboration between VIT and Universities in the US and Canada. He was also instrumental in initiating and implanting the Semester Abroad Program (SAP) and International Transfer Program (ITP) in VIT.
Founder Ashoka University, Plaksha University and Co-Founder Jamboree Education, India
Vineet Gupta is an alumnus of IIT Delhi and graduated in 1991. In an entrepreneurial career spanning over thirty years, Vineet is credited with building some outstand institutions and organizations including Ashoka University, Plaksha University and Jamboree Education.
Vineet, along with a group of friends, started thinking of setting up Ashoka university in 2007. Ashoka University opened in 2014 and has emerged as a torchbearer for high quality liberal arts and sciences education in India. Ashoka has been built on the model of collective philanthropy and is one of India’s largest collective philanthropic fundraise. Ashoka’s 93 acre campus located on the outskirts of Delhi has become a model for private universities in India. As a key Founder of the institution, Vineet built the institution from ground up and was also the first Pro Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University.
Strategic Advisor, Internationalization, UPES University, India
Vanita Shastri is an independent consultant in Higher Education Internationalization, Global Partnerships and student mobility programmes. She is former Dean of Global Education & Strategic Partnerships at Ashoka University in India. In this role she led all International partnerships and developed prospective institutional partners, managed all global mobility and student exchanges for Ashoka.
Wednesday 26 March 2025
09:30 - 10:15
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