Mr. Daljit Mirchandani, born in Karachi in 1947, has a career spanning 40 years in the corporate world in India. He retired in 2010 as the Chairman of Ingersoll-Rand (India) Ltd. Post-retirement, he continues to serve on the advisory and statutory boards of various Indian corporates and MNCs working in biofuels, water and wastewater, infrastructure development, infrastructure finance, auto components, and energy management systems. While staying engaged with the corporate world, he established Gyan Prakash Foundation in 2011, with a mission to work with the hierarchy of various state education and PRI systems to bring sustainable change from rote-based learning and assessment to competency-based education in rural government primary schools.