UPES appoints Dr. Ram Ok Sharma as its Vice Chancellor

New Delhi/Dehradun, January 30, 2023: UPES, a number one non-public multidisciplinary college at this time introduced the appointment of Dr. Ram Ok Sharma because the Vice Chancellor. Dr. Sharma has succeeded Dr. Sunil Rai, who will now tackle the position of the Chancellor, UPES.

An completed chief within the larger schooling area, Dr. Sharma has been driving educational transformation and innovation, internationalization, use of expertise to unravel entry, high quality and equity-related points throughout main Indian establishments. Previous to becoming a member of UPES in February 2020 as Dean- Lecturers after which as Professional Vice-Chancellor in Feb 2022, he held management roles at Plaksha College because the Founding Director, at Shiv Nadar College (now an Establishment of Eminence) as Director – Worldwide Relations, Affiliate Dean Lecturers and Scholar Welfare and at Amity Group of Establishments as Deputy Director Lecturers. As Dr. Sharma takes on the position of Vice Chancellor, he shall be answerable for driving educational excellence in each stroll of the college’s functioning together with college recruitment and growth, scholar expertise and operational excellence, analysis, start-ups and innovation, rankings, accreditations and notion, internationalization and creating an impeccable educational fame for the college.

Talking on Dr. Sharma’s appointment because the Vice Chancellor, Dr. Sunil Rai, Chancellor, UPES mentioned, “I’m delighted to welcome Dr. Sharma in his new position and excited to see UPES obtain better benchmarks in larger schooling by its college students and lecturers. His imaginative and prescient and keenness for making a conducive ecosystem for teaching-learning and educational excellence align utterly with the objectives and goal of UPES because the College of Tomorrow”.

Dr. Sharma has important expertise in setting-up green-field universities in addition to reworking brownfield establishments. He helped a few of the main establishments within the nation set up and rework verticals throughout curricular design, growth, program launches, instructing and studying, analysis, entrepreneurship and innovation, e-learning, and high quality assurance together with strategic interventions for rankings, and accreditations.

“I’m elated and honoured to take forward the college’s mission and goal, each of that are effectively aligned with my ardour to discover and create alternatives for students- the leaders and change-makers of tomorrow. I’m excited to embark on this journey together with a extremely motivated crew”, mentioned Dr. Ram Ok Sharma, Vice Chancellor, UPES.

He holds a PhD in Experimental Physics from UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Analysis and MLS College India, and an MSc in Physics with college benefit. He has acquired many honours and awards together with Chevening Gurukul Fellowship to pursue a management program on the College of Oxford; Fulbright Fellowship to work on MOOCs and on-line schooling on the College of California Berkeley and Coursera; Worldwide Customer Management Program (IVLP) Award by the US Division of State; Junior and Senior Analysis Fellowships by CSIR, Authorities of India amongst many others.