Gowri Ishwaran

Educating each student to be a lifelong learner and to grow into a caring, sensitive, and responsible citizen of the world

Recipient of the coveted Padmashri Award from the Government of India in 2004, Gowri Ishwaran is an innovative educationist with over 30 years of experience in leading schools in India. With a very clear vision of the type of educational experience and nurturing that children deserve, she has brought about a paradigm shift in how education needs to be imparted to young children. She has been the Founder-Principal of Sanskriti School, New Delhi, which has become a leading school in India in a short span of 10 years.

She is on the Advisory Board of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. She is Vice Chairman of The Global Education and Leadership Foundation. She is on the boards of various educational institutions. Her mission now is to mentor and nurture young people to evolve into ethical leaders of tomorrow and be the changemakers that the world so desperately needs.