{"id":3425,"date":"2022-08-04T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T09:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy\/?page_id=3425"},"modified":"2022-08-04T09:45:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T09:45:53","slug":"anurag-behar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/anurag-behar\/","title":{"rendered":"Anurag Behar"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3425\" class=\"elementor elementor-3425\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-78cce01c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"78cce01c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3c1f782a\" data-id=\"3c1f782a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1591c7d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1591c7d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.10.1 - 17-01-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Chief Executive Officer (CEO),<br \/>Azim Premji Foundation<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\">Anurag Behar is the Chief Executive Officer, of Azim Premji Foundation and is the founding Vice-Chancellor of Azim Premji University. He has been a vocal advocate for the critical importance of public systems, in particular the public education system. Anurag has also led the social and ecological initiatives of Wipro Ltd for two decades. Anurag earlier played multiple leadership roles in business. As the CEO of Wipro Infrastructure Engineering, he led a large global business and Wipro&#8217;s investments in two strategic diversifications &#8211; in the Clean Energy and Water sectors.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Anurag was a member of the committee that developed India\u2019s National Education Policy 2020 and is a member of the committee developing the National Curricular Framework 2022. He serves on various government, boards, &amp; industry councils, such as the National Mission on Teachers and Teacher Education, the board of National Centre for Biological Sciences, and the CII\u2019s National Climate Change Council and the Skills Council. He writes widely, including regular columns in the Mint and the Hindustan.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2fe1178 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2fe1178\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0a5fe38\" data-id=\"0a5fe38\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b528a11 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2b528a11\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Copyrights \u00a9 2022. Transforming Rural India Foundation<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Agenda 2022 About IRC IRC 2021 IRC 2021 Report Media Coverage Speaker Anurag Behar Chief Executive Officer (CEO),Azim Premji Foundation Anurag Behar is the Chief Executive Officer, of Azim Premji Foundation and is the founding Vice-Chancellor of Azim Premji University. He has been a vocal advocate for the critical importance of public systems, in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/anurag-behar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anurag Behar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3447,"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3425\/revisions\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}