About TGEF
TGEF or The Global Edupreneur Forum has been set up in the year 2010 in Gurgaon to encourage education focused entrepreneurship across India- fostering innovative edupreneurs who will think global and act local.
Vision
TGEF’s vision is to inspire entrepreneurial leadership in the new emerging opportunity areas in education and strengthen the national agenda for education by building a wider education ecosystem comprising of leaders in education, enterprise building, entrepreneurship, business, investors and NGOs.
Objectives
- To build a conducive education ecosystem
- To incubate education entrepreneurs
- To identify and motivate so that there is a continuous pipeline of edupreneurs
- To create a platform for networking
- To conduct workshops and training programs related to edupreneurship
- To provide a ‘thought leadership’ position in the field of education
- To build alliance and partnerships
- To maintain a database of professionals and experts in education, and investors keen to invest in education
- To continuously improve the performance of the forum
- To drive innovation and excellence in education
Our People
Prof. M.M.Pant (Founder)
The chief architect and mentor of the program is Prof. M.M.Pant (www.mmpant.net), a sui generic personality with 50 years of post schooling experience in scientifi c Research, Teaching, Management, Law, Information Technology and Business Entrepreneurship.
Prof. Pant, has been the Pro-Vice Chancellor at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and on the faculty at IIT – Kanpur (the premier Engineering institution in India), MLNR Engineering College and on the Faculty & Visiting Professor at University of Western Ontario-Canada.
Mr. J.M. Pant (Program Director)
B.Tech and M.Tech from I.I.T Delhi, with over 35 years of experience in industry, business, education, training and management consultancy. Experienced in setting up new enterprises from idea generation, project formulation, project financing to commercialization of the enterprise.
Provides consultancy to SME sector on strategy, quality and operations, and human resource development and training. Mentors senior level executives, and entrepreneurs.
Completed international assignments in Japan, South Korea and Kenya.