0000-0002-3478-1453 About
Prof. & Head, Deptt. of Educational Finance,National Institute for Education Planning & Administration, New Delhi INDIA 110016
Member : 15th Finance Commission for Education sector . funds estimation (2020-21 to 2024-25) Govt. of India
Technical Expert for Child Budget Committee, Gender Budgeting, Govt. of Karnataka, Consultant and expert with various international forums like UNESCO, Asian Productivity Organisation, British Council, Commonwealth, SAARC, World Bank and Govt. bodies. Invited speaker and Policy Analyst across the world in universities like Harvard, Oxford, Boston Mauritius, Singapore , Tokyo and many more. She holds advisory position in different committees of Universities and colleges, acts as advisor UPSC and as resource person in training programmes for Central , State Govt. Officers, banking and teaching professionals across the country. Recipient of various awards and recognitions, she has organized innumerable training programmes, workshops, seminars, conferences etc and supervised about 15 doctoral (Ph.D) and more than 50 M.Phil dissertations. Very active in cultural and social forums, she has done innumerable stage and TV shows as well as radio programmes. Trained in Indian classical (vocal), and light music she also holds diploma in Indian Classical Dance ( Kathak) and C certificate in NCC. She complements her professional endeavours with her singing passion in particular for upliftment of girls and women through her music shows under the aegis of Mann Tarang, where the proceeds are donated for identified social causes.
Consultancy and Academic Support to Public Bodies (Past Five Years):
International
• UNESCO, Bangkok and Tokyo University, Japan Project. Higher Education Internationalisation in select Asian Countries, National expert India Case Study: Final Report submitted in March 2020.
• Study on National Strategy for Developing Human Resources for the industries of the future. Asia Productivity Organisation, Tokyo, Japan. . Final Report submitted in May 2020.
• Ongoing “QualIndia Project on Analysis of quality in Indian vocational training institutions : ITIs and Polytechnic Colleges (QualIndia) with University of Cologne , Chair of Economics and Business Education, Germany. Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany .
• Ongoing Neoliberalism versus political capitalism, Investing in the global common good—Shifting paradigms in Funding for Higher Education as a contributing author to the Handbook of Education Policy (UK: Edward Elgar Publishing) with University of Hong Kong and University of Minnesota.
• UNESCO, Thailand as expert in Developing Indicators for Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific; Internationalization Policies and Practices in Asia-Pacific for UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau
• Asia Productivity Organisation, Tokyo, Japan as National Expert, India for their project on Human Resource development for the future .
• UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan § UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (Bangkok, Thailand) as expert in the Central Asia Leadership Forum for Quality Higher Education:
• Member signatory to the Declaration of Research between India and Germany in the field of Skills Development and vocational Education and training
• UNESCO, Bangkok -TOKYO university, Japan –Core member/author : Higher Education Internationalisation in select Asian Countries,
• Member: Drafting Committee for providing inputs for the next MDGs “ Final Communique” Statement to Ministers from Post Secondary and Higher Education Leaders’ Forum ( P2HELF) in the 18th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (18CCEM),under the chairmanship of of Deputy Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities 29-30
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