Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization 
Association for Democratic Reforms
Location Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC) Gender Male
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Prof. Brij Kothari (Founder) has a Ph.D. (1996) in Adult Education from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, Masters in Communications from Cornell University, and M.Sc. Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
Presently he is an Associate Professor at IIM, Ahmedabad, in the Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational
Innovation. Academic interests include literacy, primary education, and use of information technology in international development.
His work on Same Language Subtitling on TV for mass literacy has received several recognitions, including: i) Tech Laureate, Tech Museum of Innovations, San Jose, CA (2003); ii) Winner, Development Marketplace (World Bank's global competition; 2002); iii) Best Social Innovation in Education, Institute for Social Inventions, London (2000); and iv) Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship at Stanford University (2003-2004). Geographically, he has field experience in India, Bhutan, Ecuador, and the United States.
