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DR. AMITA CHAUHAN

Chairperson, Amity International Schools

A steadfast champion of quality education for all, Dr. Amita Chauhan is founder-trustee
of the Delhi-based Ritnand Balved Education Foundation (RBEF, estb.1986). Registered 35
years ago together with her husband Dr. Ashok K. Chauhan, a successful businessman who returned
from Germany to India in 1986 to revolutionise India’s human capital development effort, RBEF is
the promoter-trust of the globe-girdling Amity Group comprising 150 education institutions pro-
viding kindergarten-Ph D education to 175,000 students in India and 12 countries around the world.

Although Amity Group is widely reputed for its nine universities promoted under the banner of Am-
ity University in Noida, Gurgaon, Greater Noida, Jaipur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Gwalior, Kolkata, Raipur,
Ranchi and Patna, RBEF has also promoted 17 Amity International Schools in India and six countries
abroad. Dr. Amita Chauhan is the chairperson of the governing councils of all Amity International
Schools.

A Sanskrit postgraduate of Kurukshetra University, Dr. Chauhan conceptualised and promoted
RBEF’s first education institution — the CBSE-affiliated Amity International School (AIS), Saket (Del-
hi) — in 1991 followed by AIS, Noida in 1994. Since then, under her supervision, AIS institutions
have multiplied to 23 co-ed day schools with an aggregate enrolment of 45,000 students in India
and abroad. All of them have established excellent national reputation for providing progressive
K-12 education. In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2019-20, the CBSE-affiliated AIS,
Noida is ranked the city’s #3 co-ed day school and AIS, Gurgaon #6 in the steel-n-glass city.

“Amity International Schools were promoted to provide globally comparable education rooted in
Indian culture and values to growing children. Our focus is not only academics but development
of the scientific temper, global perspective, human values, entrepreneurship, life skills and ethical
leadership of AIS students. The spirit of service, humility, and integrity combined with deep commit-
ment to deliver internationally comparable K-12 education forms the cornerstone of Amity’s ethos,”
says Dr. Chauhan, also the publisher of The Global Times, the only registered youth newspaper in In-
dia that provides AIS children the option to transform into “conscientious journalists of tomorrow”.

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