Dr. Brij Bhardwaj
Educationist & School Leadership Mentor
Master's (Delhi University), Post-graduate degree in Education
Brij Kishore Bharadwaj is an alumnus of Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi. He has done his Masters from Delhi University and has a post-graduate degree in Education. He has worked in widely known schools in India and abroad for the last 38 years, gaining knowledge of classroom practices, teacher education, school management and people.
He has been deeply involved in education with a special focus on defining school strategies for qualitative improvement and defining standards for professional performance of school leaders.
He was founder-principal of 2 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas in Gujarat under the JNV initiative of the Ministry of HRD in 1990. He was appointed Principal of Bhavan's Savan Public School under Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Delhi Kendra. He served as Principal of reputed DPS schools at Indo-Gulf Fertilizers Ltd and DPS-SJVNL-Jhakri, and later as Director of DPS Jamshedpur and Raffles International School, Alwar.
He was Educational Consultant with ITC Ltd.'s TTD division for their ICSE schools in West Bengal. He headed the Modern Indian School in Kathmandu, Nepal and the Varkey International School in Dubai (UAE). He was Chief-Educationist with TATA Steel and Ambuja Cements Ltd. in Jamshedpur and Mumbai respectively.
He was part of the Dr. J.J. Irani Education Excellence Award initiative for JUSCO/Jamshedpur schools, which were commended for their strong commitment to TQM in Education. He drove the AFS international exchange program and visited schools and educational institutions in Japan under Jensys' awards.
He participated in the Mentoring Program for CBSE schools. He is trained in the Business Excellence Leaders' Program by Tata Quality Management Services (TQMS) and completed the Total Quality in Education Facilitators' Course for School Education by CII Institute of Quality, Bangalore.
He headed the Jaflong Valley Boarding School, the largest private fully residential school in Bangladesh, as part of a new educational venture of JVS Ltd., Dhaka. He facilitated the setting up of Vivekananda College of Teacher Education at Naharlagun, Arunachal Pradesh. Since 2024 he has been associated with the Vedritam group of schools (formerly DAV group Chennai) as an adviser for their institutional outreach program.