A BITS Pilani & IIM Alumni Initiative

Lakshmi Annapurna CH

Mentor & Advisor
M.S. Sociology, Advanced Educational Leadership-Harvard University
ACADEMIC DIRECTOR

Lakshmi Annapurna Chintaluri is a distinguished educationist with 28 years of experience, including 25 years in leadership roles across India, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

Key Roles and Affiliations:

Director – Academics & Operations, Educational Mentoring India
Country Coordinator – Centre for Global Education, Canada
* Certified Master Trainer – CBSE, Centre of Excellence
Ambassador-CAEL Program, Harvard University
* Advisory Council Member – Grade1to6.com
* Member – iEARN, USA

Core Expertise:

Extensive teacher and principal training (trained over 6,500 educators)
* School transformation and leadership development
Curriculum development, performance management & assessment analysis Promoting Global Citizenship and Sustainable Education

Awards and Recognition:

* International and National Education Awards (2018)
* Bett Asia Award (2019)
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Teacher’s Excellence Award (2020)
Top Women Entrepreneurship in School Education (2020)
Nexus of Good Foundation Award (2022), Best Educator Award (2023)
* Pride of Telangana – Emerging Educator (2024)
The Institutions that she represented received:
* “International School Award” from British Council
* “5 Star Rating – Great School” by the World Education Foundation, UK

Global Impact:

She has facilitated student participation in global events like COP23-COP29-United Nations Climate Change Conference at Germany, Poland, Spain, Glasgow and Egypt, Dubai and Azerbaijan, UN Biodiversity summits at Cali, Columbia and IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] at Edmonton, Canada facilitated by the Centre for Global Education, Edmonton, Canada, involving over 25,000 students.

She was invited by the UN ESCAP (Economic & Social Commission for Asia Pacific), an arm of UN for it’s Inter Ministerial Committee on Environment and Development as a speaker for the Asia Pacific Finance Roundtable for Climate Change.

She has also been invited to the UN Headquarters at New York for the Water Conference held on 22nd to 24th March 2023 as a speaker.

She has been invited by Telangana Government’s SCERT which is the state wing of NCERT to develop two modules for the National Centre for School Leadership’s Curriculum Framework based on the National Educational Policy released recently

* Transformation in Teaching and Learning Process in the 21st Century [This was translated into Telugu and hosted on SCERT website]

Perspectives in Leadership
Social and Emotional Learning

Presented Papers:

* “Special Educational Needs students – Partners in Change” at the International Conference conducted by British council, New Delhi
* “Children as global citizens of tomorrow – Educators – Changemakers” at the International Education and Resources Network [IEARN]- USA Chapter’s conference at Morocco