Manish Jain is deeply committed to regenerating our diverse local knowledge systems, cultural imaginations and inter-cultural dialogue. He is one of the leading planetary voices for unlearning, deschooling our lives and reimagining education. He has served Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development based in Udaipur, India, for 27 years. He is co-founder of some of the most innovative educational experiments in the world—the Swaraj University, Jail University, Complexity University, Tribal Farmversity, Sacredversities, the Learning Societies Unconference, Udaipur Learning City and numerous others. He co-launched the global Ecoversities Alliance with 500+ members in 50 countries. He is a senior advisor to the Economics of Happiness network for localisation. He has worked as a facilitator with Social Labs, Art of Hosting and World Cafe. Manish has been invited to give inspiring public keynote speeches on Reimagining Education all around the world. Prior to this, Manish worked as one of the principal team members of the UNESCO ‘Learning Without Frontiers’ global initiative. He has also been a consultant to UNICEF, World Bank, USAID in Africa, South Asia and the former Soviet Union. Manish worked as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley. 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. He and his wife Vidhi have been unschooling themselves with their 23 year old daughter, Kanku, in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

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