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Manish Jain

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Manish Jain is Coordinator and Co-Founder of Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development based in Udaipur, India. He is Chief Editor of the magazine, Swapathgami (Making Our Own Paths of Living and Learning) for Walk-outs.  He is co-founder of the Swaraj University which is India’s first self-designed learning university dedicated to regeneration of local culture, local economy and local ecology. 


Manish is also a co-creator of the Udaipur as a Learning City process which is dedicated to regenerating the learning ecosystem. He has edited several books on Vimukt Shiksha (liberating learning) on themes such as learning societies, unlearning, gift culture, unlearning, community media, and tools for deep dialogue. 

Manish also served as faculty and advisor for sustainability and social entrepreneurship to Phoenix International Business School in Udaipur. He has also served as a long-time board member with the Berkana Institute (USA) and helped to start the Berkana Exchange for community leadership centers. Prior to this, Manish worked as one of the principal developers of the UNESCO Learning Without Frontiers global initiative and as an consultant in the areas of educational planning, policy analysis, research, program design and media/technology with:  UNICEF, USAID, UNDP, World Bank, World Education, Academy for Educational Development, and Education Development Center in Africa, Middle East and the former Soviet Union. 

Manish also worked as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley focusing on the telecom and information technology sectors. He has been trying to unlearn his Master's degree in Education from Harvard University and a B.A. in Economics, International Development and Political Philosophy from Brown University .

Manish is passionate about urban organic farming, filmmaking, simulation gaming, bicycling, group facilitation and slow food cooking. He and his wife Vidhi have been unschooling themselves with their 10 year old daughter, Kanku.

Manish Jain
Shikshantar: The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development
83 Adinath Nagar, Udaipur, Rajasthan, 313004 INDIA
Web: www.swaraj.org/shikshantar
Skype: manishjainudaipur

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This site promotes the orientation, activities, resources and projects of the Centre for the Study of Sustainable Futures and Spirituality (GCSSFS). The Centre is supported in the area of content generation, project execution, design and general administration by Public Media Agency (PMA),  Petaling Jaya, Malaysia under the direct care of one of their creative consultants, Dr. M. Nadarajah (Nat). Nat works as consultant on different projects.  He supports PMA on its various projects supporting social causes. Nat is presently engaged with Xavier University@Bhubaneshwar, India, with it School of Sustainability. He works with Loyola College@Chennai, India on issues related sustainability and spirituality. He is associated with the Centre for Diaspora Studies@MSU, Tirunelveli, India. He continues to support Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), which is based in Penang, Malaysia, as consultant on a project to set up a 'blended' institution, International People's Agroecology Multiversity (IPAM), to promote agroecology across Asia and the Pacific. He is also a member of the Asian Public Intellectual (API)  community.

GCSSFS, 2016