Sunita Gandhi

Dr Sunita Gandhi has been passionate about education her whole life, starting her first school at the age of 14! She later got a PhD in physics from Cambridge University, UK, and worked at the World Bank for ten years before
returning to Indiato campaign for literacy. She is Chief Academic Advisor for City Montessori School, Lucknow, the world’s largest school; and founder-president of the Global Dream
Literacy program. Sunita has received numerous awards, including ‘Educationist of the Year’ (2014) and ‘Visionary of Uttar Pradesh’ (2017).
Amidst travels to 49 countries to study their education systems, she has made time to start schools in Czech Republic, Iceland and India. On the rare occasions she’s not working, she likes spending time with her family,
playing board games and watching old Hindi movies.