Dr Dhir Jhingran
Founder-Director, LLF Senior Advisor, UNICEF India and other national and international NGOs Former Director, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)
Dr. Dhir Jhingran, a former IAS officer, is the Founder & Executive Director of Language and Learning Foundation (LLF), a non-profit focused on improving students’ foundational learning at scale.
Dhir has worked in the primary education sector for over 30 years, within and outside the Government. Within the Government, as an officer of the Indian Administrative Service, Dhir has served in policy- making roles in the Ministry of Education at the national level. In Assam, he was Project Director of the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) and Mission Director of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan as well as Principal Secretary, Education. He has also handled several other profiles, such as Senior Advisor to UNICEF India, Advisor to the Ministry of Education in Nepal, Asia Regional Director and Chief Program Officer with Room to Read. He has made significant contributions to the development and implementation of early grade reading programs in several countries in Asia and Africa as well as first language-based multilingual education programs in several states in India. A major focus of Dhir’s work has been on the design and implementation of large-scale programs for transformative and sustained change in quality of school education.
Dhir is a member of the National Steering Committee for the development of National Curriculum Framework. He also conducts an education module at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie for IAS officers at different stages in their careers.
Dhir has authored three books in primary education based on empirical research and has contributed to several books and journals. Dhir holds a master’s in economics and a PhD in Education.
