Prof Marmar Mukhopadhyay, former Professor, NIEPA, and Chairman of NOS, New Delhi, is Chairman of Educational Technology and Management Academy (ETMA) in India. Starting his career as a teacher in his village, Udang High School, he served as a faculty member and in leadership positions in College, University and India’s prestigious Regional and National Institutions including, TTTI, NCERT, NIEPA, NOS. He was also Vice-President (Asia) of the ICDE (Oslo).
He has been involved in educational policymaking and planning as a member of various committees of the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Planning Commission and ex-officio member of the CABE. He chaired the CABE Sub-Committee on the Universalization of Secondary Education.
Prof Mukhopadhyay continued to engage himself deeply with heads and teachers of rural and leading urban schools as a mentor for more than four decades.
He had several consulting assignments with ISRO, UNESCO, UNICEF, COL, British Council, USAID, and IT giants like IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Xerox, NIIT, etc.
While he practised technology integration in teaching, research, and consultancy assignments, he had the rare opportunity to view educational technology from the broad end of policymaking, human resources development, and the small end of a practitioner. His experience and learning are unique.