Anantha Duraiappah


Anantha Duraiappah served as the inaugural director of the [Mahatma Gandhi UNESCO|Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development|Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP)], a UNESCO Category 1 Research Institute in the Asia Pacific from 2014 to 2023. He is also currently visiting professor in the, former visiting professor, University of Tokyo, Japan, a fellow of, a fellow and member, World Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the advisory board, Journal - Indian Society of Ecological Economics. He has previously worked in senior positions at the United Nations University, United Nations Environment Programme, International Institute for Sustainable Development and was previously an academic at Vrije Universiteit, National University of Singapore and European University Institute. Dr. Duraiappah is also in the modern Japanese martial art of Kendo.

Education

Duraiappah obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electronics University of Kent, England, in 1980, MBA in Finance, University of San Francisco America in 1983 and Ph.D. in Economics, University of Texas, Austin, America in 1991

Career

Duraiappah was the director, UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) from 2014 to December 2023. During his directorship the institute developed The International Science and Evidence based Education Assessment, LIBRE, theTalking across Generations on Education dialogue platform, the Knowledge Commons platform and the online SixthSpace.
He is also responsible for developing the Empathy, Mindfulness, Compassion, Critical inquiry model which is an approach on Social and Emotional Learning. Dr Anantha has also developed UNESCO MGIEP's Artificial Intelligence powered General Data Protection Regulation compliant learning platform, FramerSpace, now being used across many countries by schools, educators and students.
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