Sep 23, 2022
Atul Temurnikar is a prominent member of the education industry
in ASEAN, North & South Asia & Middle East. Now he serves as
co-founding trustee and Executive Chairman of Singapore-based
Global Schools Foundation (GSF), a not-for-profit organisation.
Mr Temurnikar is a staunch advocate of high-quality education that
transcends socio-economic boundaries from Korea to Japan in the
East, to Singapore to Malaysia in ASEAN and India and Middle East.
His significant efforts in the education sector include as a member
of the Schools Sub-committee of the National Integration Committee
(NIC) set up by the Government of Singapore.
Mr Atul participated in recommendation of changes to the Indian
Foreign Direct Investment’s (FDI) policies for India’s education
sector, which were then implemented in 2013 with special cabinet
approval. Many of other suggestions given to India's former MHRD
Minister were seen to have been implemented in the NEP 2020.
On the business community front, Mr Temurnikar is instrumental in
bringing big ideas and big minds together from Singapore and India,
and serves as the Patron of the Singapore chapter of the Institute
of Directors (IOD India).
In the past two decades, Mr Temurnikar has been invited by several
forum such as Institute of Directors, Horasis, Expert Guest on XL
Podcast with Graham Brown on Leadership and Agile Thinking in
Education
Expert Guest on MoneyFM 89.3, a Singapore based radio on the topic
of mental health issues.
Achievements : Some of Mr Temurnikar’s key accolades include:
Distinguished Fellow award from the Institute of Directors,
India;
The Walter L. Hurd Executive Medal, awarded by the Walter Hurd
Foundation USA for demonstrating exceptional adherence to quality
within and outside an organization;
Award of social recognition for contribution to SINDA in 2006 by
then Dy Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee Hsien Loong, for
outstanding efforts in social services for the underprivileged in
Singapore.
An eloquent speaker, Mr Temurnikar has delivered motivational
speeches on leadership, entrepreneurship, life choices and the
importance of education including at the Global Convention of the
Institute of Directors in London, among others.
He ventured into the education sector after a 16-year technology
stint with highly reputable global organisations such as IBM ASEAN
South Asia and HCL Technologies.
Growing up in a middle-class family, Atul was among the top 3
students and ranked 3rd Merit among a million students who attended
the Grade 12 exams in 1979 in Maharashtra (India) state board
examinations.
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