India's Higher Education Renaissance: New-Age Innovation Universities and the Road to Global Partnerships

Harshita will share insights on,

1. The evolving landscape of Indian higher education and what NEP 2020 means for global partners
2. The rise of new-age universities and how they differ from traditional institutions
3. India's transition from a sender to a destination country for international students
4. The Nordic-India opportunity shared values around sustainability, equity, and interdisciplinary thinking, and concrete pathways for collaboration, and,
5.  Lessons from building international partnerships at Ashoka University, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, and Plaksha University
    

Speaker and Bio

Harshita Tripathi is an education administrator with over a decade of experience in international partnerships, global engagement, and higher education policy in India. She has been a founding and senior team member at three of India's leading new-age universities: Ashoka University, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, and Plaksha University. In her current role as Head - Office of Global Engagements, she has expanded the university collaborations to new geographies.

A vocal advocate for interdisciplinary education and JEDI principles, she is one of the youngest Indians to have participated in the Women in Education Leadership programme at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is a recipient of the DAAD DIES Fellowship in Management of Internationalisation (2024) and the Government of India's DST-INSPIRE Fellowship. She holds a gold-medal M.Sc. in Environment Management from the Forest Research Institute and is currently pursuing a PhD in History and Archaeology at Shiv Nadar IoE. Her research work investigates the transitions and the evolution of the science research institutions in India and its complex intersections with global policy interventions and the emergence of educational markets.

She serves on the Board of Directors of the International Virtual Exchange Consortium (IVEC) and on the MENASA NASPA Area Committee and has championed COIL and virtual exchange as tools for inclusive globalisation. She is currently serving as a committee member on the Association of Indian Universities to create a handbook for Internationalisation at Home for Indian HEIs.  Her work has been published in the IIE Networker, University World News, NASPA, QS and EAIE publications, and she has presented at leading international higher education conferences including APAIE, EAIE, NAFSA, QS, and DAAD's iHED dialogue.

Beyond work, she loves travelling and reading bedtime stories to her four-year-old daughter.