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Professor and Former Head, Dept of English, University of Mumbai, Coomi is an Education Futurist, Founder Director of the annual Global Tipping Point Summit, Peace Activist, internationally acclaimed Educator, Literary Critic, Teacher Educator, Writer and Storyteller. Coomi has two Ph.D. degrees to her credit – one in literature and the other in Education, both of which as rooted in Psychology. She has published 11 books and 58 papers that have appeared in peer-reviewed national and international journals and critical anthologies. She has won numerous national and international awards and is a renowned speaker who delivers lectures and leads seminars and workshops for teachers and parents. The two TEDx talks which she delivered, have received rave reviews from viewers. The International Journal of Canadian Studies, Ottawa, declared as among the ten best Canadian critics in the world and this won her an honorary position for three years on the Advisory Board of the International Journal for Canadian Studies. She was re-appointed on the Board from Fall 2007 to 2009. The Sahitya Akademi nominated her as a Member on the English Advisory Board of from April 2016 to December 2017. Coomi is passionate about teaching pedagogy and has been actively involved in curriculum designing at all levels and has helped set up study centres in India and abroad. In 2013, her book on Education, Source-full Intelligence: Understanding Uniqueness and Oneness through Education was selected as among the eighteen best books published in the U.S.A. in 2013 and her most recent book, What Children Really Want, has received critical acclaim from educators, psychologists, parents, writers from all over the world and even the Dalai Lama. In August-September 2015, she was selected by the World Leaders in Education (WLE) as one of the thirty-five women from across the world changing educational paradigms.

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