N. V. Varghese was Vice Chancellor, NIEPA, New Delhi and Founding Director of the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE/NIEPA), New Delhi (2013-2019); Head of Governance and Management in Education at the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP/UNESCO), Paris (2006- 2013). He was responsible for managing an Asian regional network – the Asian Network of Training and Research Institutions in Educational Planning (ANTRIEP). He has been a member of several International Boards/Committes and editorial Boards of Journals. He has directed several national and international research projects; carried out research projects in several countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and CIS region; published more than 30 books and research reports, and more than 200 research papers and articles in academic Journals in the areas related to educational planning, financing and higher education.
Garima Malik is currently an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (CPRHE/NIEPA), New Delhi. She holds a PhD in Economics from Ohio State University in the USA. She has published in journals and presented papers at national and international conferences. Her publications include a co-edited book India Higher Education Report 2015, Routledge, 2016 (with N.V. Varghese). She has also co-edited Governance and Management of Higher Education in India (with N.V. Varghese), Sage, 2020. Her current research focuses on governance and management in higher education. She also led the India research team of a multi-country UNESCO-International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris project on SDG4: Planning for Flexible Learning Pathways in Higher Education.