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Ohio State University.
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Madhav Chavan
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He also started the Read India campaign, which aims to teach basic reading, writing and arithmetic to underprivileged children across India. Pratham has been recognized by the Kravis Prize and the Skoll Award for its innovativeness and leadership as a social entrepreneurial organization in the area of education. He was also the 2011 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
He received his Chemical Engineering bachelor"s degree from Institute of Chemical Technology (UDCT), and received his Doctor of Philosophy from Ohio State University.
Madhav Chavan taught Chemistry at the University of Houston and the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai before getting involved with adult literacy in the National Literacy Mission in the slums of Mumbai in 1989. He returned to India in 1983.
After producing literacy programmes for Doordarshan for a few years, he was invited to work with a Unicef project to teach in Mumbai’s slums.
Achievements
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He is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the educational non-profit, Pratham. Chavan was the 2012 recipient of the WISE Prize for Education, which is widely considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the field of education and recipient of Leading-Social-Contributor-Award which is the highest degree award in India for exemplary work in the area of operation. Madhav Chavan was born in Maharashtra to Yashwant Chavan, the founder of the Lenin-inspired Lal Nishan Party.
Membership
He was a member of National Advisory Council from 2004 to 2008. He is also a member of the Governing Council of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Mission (Social Security Administration) of the Government of India and has been a member of four half-yearly Joint Review Missions of Social Security Administration.
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