Prof. R. Govinda

Prof R Govinda is the ex-Vice Chancellor of the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi. Previously, he worked in reputed educational institutes such as the Institute of Education, University of London; MS University of Baroda and the International Institute of Educational Planning (IIEP), UNESCO.

He is a member of several national and international bodies. He has been on the editorial board of the Global Education Monitoring Report; Consultant Fellow to International Bureau of Education; Member of the Governing Board of UNESCO Institute of Statistics, Montreal; Member of the Central Advisory Board of Education; and Member of the National Advisory Committee on Right to Education of Government of India.

His research interests include primary education and literacy, decentralized management, programme evaluation, and reforms in higher education. He has published widely on these issues in several books and journals. Oxford University Press has recently published an edited volume of his studies titled “Who goes to School? Exploring Exclusion in Indian Education”.

Mr. Shyam B. Menon

Professor Menon is with the Ambedkar University, Delhi, since August 2008 as its first Vice Chancellor. He has been a Professor at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi; the Dean of Faculty of Education, the Proctor and Professor at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi; Director, School of Education, Indira Gandhi National Open University; and a Professor at the Central Institute of Educational Technology, NCERT. He also taught at the MS University of Baroda for several years.

As a Fulbright Fellow, he was in the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His doctoral work was in the area of curriculum and cognition, and his postdoctoral research was in higher education. Much of his work has been in curriculum studies, higher education and teacher education. He edited the journal, Perspectives in Education, for many years. He is currently on the International Advisory Board of Comparative Education, Teaching Education, and Asia Pacific Journal of Education. He is a member of the Task Force on Access and Equity in Higher Education, constituted by the International Association of Universities

Prof. Dr. S. Parasuraman

Prof Parasuraman is Former Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He has over 25 years of experience as a teacher, trainer, activist, administrator and development worker. His specific skills lie in establishing and nurturing institutions; facilitating capacity-building on rights-based approach to development; contributing to team building; conflict resolution; professional and personal development of staff at all levels in the organizations and managing complex programmes spread across large regions.

He has held key positions in international organisations: as Asia Regional Policy Coordinator, ActionAid Asia; Senior Advisor to the Commission, and Team Leader of the Secretariat, World Commission on Dams; and as Programme Director, Oxfam GB, India Programme. Dr Parasuraman has been associated with the Narmada Movement since 1987 and was a member of the Prime Minister’s Committee to review the Tehri Hydroelectric Project. He is also a key member of the ‘Practitioners Forum on Human Rights in Development’ (facilitated by the UNHCHR), involving UN agencies, bilateral and multilateral agencies, and NGOs with Asia regional offices; and key member of an NGO network engaged in advocacy with the Asian Development Bank.

He was awarded the Bharat ShreshtaAcharya Award 2012 by MIT, Pune. Prof Parasuraman has over 50 publications to his credit in the form of articles in national and international journals, books and research reports. He was conferred an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Literature, Honoris Causa) by Assam University.