Professor Sunaina Singh

Advisor Research and Innovation, and Former Vice Chancellor Association of the Universities of Asia and the Pacific (AUAP) and Nalanda International University

Professor Sunaina Singh is a distinguished academic leader, widely acclaimed as an institutional builder for her transformative leadership as Change Maker with integrity in Higher Education governance in the Asian region. She is widely credited for rebuilding Nalanda International University as its Vice Chancellor in the recent past. Professor Singh has held several leadership positions at national and international institutions delivering on challenges in executive management along with building organisational networks, research clusters and collaborations, policy creation and designing innovative courses as a strategic thought leader. She is extensively acclaimed for remodelling university governance architecture as resilient, engaged and sustainable institutions for the 21st century. She has also straddled with ease an illustrious career in teaching and research as a professor of English and Comparative Culture is widely recognised for her scholarship in Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Women’s Writing. For her exemplary leadership initiatives, she’s also been conferred with several awards.

Some major institutions that she had the privilege to shape or to contribute are: Former Vice Chancellor, Nalanda International University Bihar, Ministry of External Affairs, GoI 2017-2023; Governing Council Member Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters 2023; Honorary Professor, Oxford Academic Union, Oxford, UK 2020; Advisor, Research and Innovation Committee - Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific 2021; Governing Board Member, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, (IIAS) Shimla 2021-2023; Advisory Council Member, Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific (AUAP) 2020; Vice President, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) 2016-2020;Vice Chancellor, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad 2012-2017, Ministry of Education, Government of India; President/VP/Executive Board Member Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute- a Binational Research institute under Foreign Affairs Canada and Ministry of Education India 2009-2012; Independent Director/Board Member- Divi’s Laboratories, a multinational Pharmaceutical company, Hyderabad 2018–2024; 2nd term 2024-2029; Governing Board Member, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Belur, 2018; Member, Governing Board and Academic Advisory Committee of Chanakya University, Bangalore 2022; Executive Board Member as Visitor's (President of India) nominee, Tamil Nadu Central University 2022, and Nagaland Central University, 2024.

Professor Singh is a widely acclaimed as a strategic thought leader and an institutional builder for her transformative leadership in university Higher Education governance systems. 





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