Prof. Venita Kaul, is Professor Emerita (Education) Ambedkar University Delhi and Chairperson of the Advisory Committee of Center for Early Childhood Education and Development (CECED) at the university. She retired in 2016 as Director of School of Education Studies and Founder Director of Center for Early Childhood Education and Development (CECED), at the Ambedkar University, Delhi, which is a state university. Prior to this assignment, Prof Kaul was a Senior Education Specialist in The World Bank for over ten years. Before joining the World Bank, Prof Kaul served in NCERT for over twenty years and took early retirement from the position of Professor and Head of Department of Preschool and Elementary Education. Prof Kaul has been a member of several Committees of the Government in an Advisory capacity. At the international level, she has been a Member of the Steering Group of Asia Pacific Regional Network for ECD and has been an invited member of the International Forum for Investing in the Young Child. She has also been on the Boards of a number of well known NGOs working in the area of Education including Pratham, Mobile Creches and Sesame Street (India). Prof Kaul has a PhD from I.I.T. Delhi in Psychology and has several national and international publications in the area of Early Education to her credit.