Dr. Kiran Pai
Pro-Chancellor Director, Vidyashilp Education Group Ed.D., M.Ed. (LDT), University of Southern California
Dr. Kiran Pai (Ed.D.) is the co-founder and Pro-Chancellor of Vidyashilp University. She is also the Director of three prominent schools in Bangalore, India - Vidyashilp Academy, Vidyashilp School and Vidyasagar Preschool. Dr. Pai is a trained Educational Psychologist with expertise in Instructional Design. She earned her Doctorate in Education (Ed.D) in Organizational Change and Leadership and her Masters in Education in Learning Design and Technology (M.Ed LDT) at the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, USA. She was recently awarded the prestigious 2021 Doctoral Distinction Award in recognition of her scholarly work. She is also the recipient of the 2020 Honors from the U.S. based Kappa Delta Pi International Society in Education, which acknowledges only the top 20 percent of prominent international scholars in the field. She was the recipient of the 50 Innovative Leaders award in India awarded by the World Education Congress and Prof. Indira Parikh. Dr Pai undertook most of her professional training in educational leadership at Harvard University, Boston and the IIM-A. Dr. Pai is a member of the American Education Research Association (AERA) and the American Psychological Association (APA). Under her stewardship as the Director of schools in the last fourteen years, Vidyashilp Academy and Vidyasagar Preschools have won the IBCI School Brilliance awards, World Education awards for Pedagogy, and have been consistently ranked as one of the best co-ed day schools in the country. Additionally, her school’s revolutionary pedagogy has attracted long-term global and national partnerships with organizations such as UNESCO, IISc, IIM-A, University of Missouri, National Institute of Advanced Sciences and the Atal Innovation Mission. Specifically, Vidyashilp Academy is the only school in India identified by UNESCO Asia Pacific for its leading-edge pedagogical practices. To date, numerous organizations and conference papers continue to cite the school as a concrete example of best practices in promoting learner well-being. Additionally, she is also the Founder-Director of Vidyashilp Community Trust, a large-scale government school reform project for over 3,000 disadvantaged youth.
Dr. Kiran Pai
Pro-Chancellor Director, Vidyashilp Education Group Ed.D., M.Ed. (LDT), University of Southern California
Dr. Kiran Pai (Ed.D.) is the co-founder and Pro-Chancellor of Vidyashilp University. She is also the Director of three prominent schools in Bangalore, India - Vidyashilp Academy, Vidyashilp School and Vidyasagar Preschool. Dr. Pai is a trained Educational Psychologist with expertise in Instructional Design. She earned her Doctorate in Education (Ed.D) in Organizational Change and Leadership and her Masters in Education in Learning Design and Technology (M.Ed LDT) at the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, USA. She was recently awarded the prestigious 2021 Doctoral Distinction Award in recognition of her scholarly work. She is also the recipient of the 2020 Honors from the U.S. based Kappa Delta Pi International Society in Education, which acknowledges only the top 20 percent of prominent international scholars in the field. She was the recipient of the 50 Innovative Leaders award in India awarded by the World Education Congress and Prof. Indira Parikh. Dr Pai undertook most of her professional training in educational leadership at Harvard University, Boston and the IIM-A. Dr. Pai is a member of the American Education Research Association (AERA) and the American Psychological Association (APA). Under her stewardship as the Director of schools in the last fourteen years, Vidyashilp Academy and Vidyasagar Preschools have won the IBCI School Brilliance awards, World Education awards for Pedagogy, and have been consistently ranked as one of the best co-ed day schools in the country. Additionally, her school’s revolutionary pedagogy has attracted long-term global and national partnerships with organizations such as UNESCO, IISc, IIM-A, University of Missouri, National Institute of Advanced Sciences and the Atal Innovation Mission. Specifically, Vidyashilp Academy is the only school in India identified by UNESCO Asia Pacific for its leading-edge pedagogical practices. To date, numerous organizations and conference papers continue to cite the school as a concrete example of best practices in promoting learner well-being. Additionally, she is also the Founder-Director of Vidyashilp Community Trust, a large-scale government school reform project for over 3,000 disadvantaged youth.
