Ankita Diwekar Kabra is a passionate educationist, social entrepreneur and has been associated with Fountainhead School, since its inception in 2005.
Background
Her father Mr. V. P. Diwekar is an engineer by profession and runs an engineering company which manufactures machineries for Cosmetic and Coating Industries. Her mother Rekha Diwekar, now retired, was a chemistry professor at Sathaye College and her sister Rujuta Diwekar is a Mumbai-based famous celebrity dietician.
Career
Born and raised in Mumbai she belongs to a family of highly educated people. Married to Vardan Kabra, she is now settled in Surat. Education and Ankita grew up in the suburbs of Mumbai and completed her schooling from Cosmopolitan Education Society’s Sheth C Doctorate Barfiwala High School.
She holds qualifications as a Computer Science Engineer from the University of Mumbai.
She began her career with i-Flex Solutions (now known as Oracle Financial Services) for a year before doing her Post-Graduation Diploma in Management from Indian Institutes of Management Ahmedabad. She also worked with Procter & Gamble for 8 months after Indian Institutes of Management Ahmedabad, before co-founding Fountainhead Preschool with Vardan.
She has done a year’s training in the Steiner Method of Education and a post graduate diploma in “School leadership and Management”. Currently, she is the Primary School Principal and Deputy Head of School at Fountainhead School where she oversees the curriculum design and implementation of the IB – PYP program
The school is considered one of the premier schools in Surat and is the 1st in Surat that offers the International Baccalaureate Program.
Moreover, she is accountable for the administrative responsibilities including admissions, teacher training and resource management. Ankita is also involved with the operations at Fountainhead Preschool.