Gitanjali J Angmo

Gitanjali J Angmo is the Co-Founder, Director & Dean of Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh (HIAL), India. HIAL is an alternative University for mountain development based on the principles of contextual and experiential learning that is transforming higher education in India. Gitanjali has advised Governments of Maharashtra and Ladakh in designing their educational policies.. A lifelong student of Sanskrit, Vedas, Upanishads and the Gita in the light of Sri Aurobindo, she brings her insights gleaned from these texts into her educational and developmental frameworks through her initiative ‘Transform India’ that she founded in 2022. She is authoring a book on the “5 pillars of the Education of the Future” slated to be released this year. She is also an ODISSI and Russian Ballet dancer, a black belt in Karate and a world champion besides being a TED speaker, Chevening scholar at Oxford University and Women Transforming India national awardee from the Government of India.