Lakshmi Annapurna Chintaluri

Director (Academics and Operations) Educational Mentoring India (EMI)

Lakshmi Annapurna Chintaluri is a distinguished educational leader with over 30 years of experience across India, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Certified in Advanced Educational Leadership from Harvard University, she has held leadership roles spanning teacher, principal, vice-principal and independent consultant, training over 10,000 teachers and 5,000 principals and headmasters across India. Co-Founder and Director of Educational Mentoring India, Lakshmi leads globally on sustainable education and global citizenship, representing India at the UN ESCAP Asia Pacific Finance Roundtable for Climate Change, the UN Water Conference in New York, and COP30 in Brazil. She is Country Coordinator for the Centre for Global Education, Canada, and a member of iEARN, USA. A Bett Asia Award winner for Collaboration, published author and NEP 2020 resource person, Lakshmi's vision is singular to make holistic, inclusive education accessible to every child, at every level, everywhere.