Dr. Abul Khair Jalaluddin (A.K. Jalaluddin) is a distinguished educator, educational researcher and thinker, widely known for his contributions to the field of literacy, basic and mass education. He served as the former Joint Director at NCERT, New Delhi and held senior faculty and technical advisory positions at Directorate of Adult Education, as well as several other institutions including the Maulana Azad Centre for Social and Elementary Education, Delhi University. He also assisted the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India in framing the National Education Policy formation (NPE 1986) and led the NCERT team in revising the National Curricular Framework for Elementary and Secondary Education and examination reforms. He is a former UNDP/UNESCO international adviser to the government of Bangladesh and provided technical assistance to BRAC’s innovative Chandina Learning Improvement Project (CLIP). His “accelerated literacy” model has become a household name in United Nations educational projects. In 1999 he formed his own charitable public Trust, NEEV (Network of Enterprising Educational Ventures) which is actively engaged in promoting educational change through innovation, research and training.