Advisory Committee

 

The Advisory Committee of the Global Forum consists of leading scholars interested in emerging issues of Indian Higher Education within an increasingly global context. They suggest topics and themes to be included on the Forum; are regular writers of ‘think pieces’; review books; provide information about significant events and conferences; and more generally promote the Forum among their various networks.

Pawan Agarwal is Adviser (Higher Education), Planning Commission. He was earlier in the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the University Grants Commission.

 

 

 

Hemlata Chari is Deputy Director of the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education at University of Mumbai. She has written extensively on international and comparative education.

 

 

Saumen Chattopadhyay is an Associate Professor at the Zakir Hussain Centre of Educational Studies at JNU. He is an economist of Indian higher education.

 

 

 

Dr. Rahul Choudaha is Director of Development & Innovation at World Education Services (WES), New York. He earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Denver and edits a blog on higher education trends: www.DrEducation.com

 

 

 

Amita Chudgar is trained in Economics (India), Development Studies (UK) and Economics of Education (USA). She is currently an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University’s College of Education.

 

 

Sangeeta Kamat is an associate professor in education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has written widely on Globalization and education reform, critical theory, gender and South Asia.

 

 

 

Simon Marginson is a professor at the Centre for Studies in Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. He is one of the world’s leading scholars in international and comparative studies of higher education. His most recent book examines issues of international student mobility and experiences.

 

 

Amitabh Mattoo is Director of the Australia India Institute. A leading scholar of international relations, he has been a member of the National Knowledge Commission in India, and the Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University.

 

 

Eric Meadows is a researcher at the Alfred Deakin Research Institute at Deakin University in Australia. He was previously Pro Vice Chancellor (International) there and previously served as a senior Australian diplomat in India.

 

 

Bhikhu Parekh is a leading philosopher who has written extensively on liberal theory, racism, multiculturalism and the new politics of identity. He is a member of the House of Lords, UK.

 

 

 

 

Alok Rai is a professor in English at the University of Delhi. He has written extensively on the humanities and the cultural politics of languages in India, including a widely-read monograph, Hindi Nationalism.

 

 

Aromar Revi is the Director of the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), an interdisciplinary national educational institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements.

 

 

Pradeep Taneja teaches in the Department of Politics at the University of Melbourne. His research expertise is in Indian and Chinese politics.

 

 

Jandhyala BG Tilak, Professor at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, is an economist of education and a critical policy analyst of Indian higher education.

 

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