Dheeraj Mehrotra | Vice President
GEMS Education

Dr. Dheeraj Mehrotra is a distinguished education leader, author, mentor, and speaker, currently serving as Vice President, GEMS Education India. With over three decades of experience, he has played a pivotal role in advancing school leadership, educational innovation, and quality assurance across India and internationally. A recipient of the President of India's National Teacher Award (2006), he is an expert in Academic Audits, School Quality Assurance & Accreditation (SQAA), Six Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Kaizen, and 5S, helping schools achieve excellence through systematic quality improvement. Dr. Mehrotra is the author of 250+ books on education, school leadership, artificial intelligence, quality management, and computer science. He has also developed 150+ free educational mobile applications, earning recognition in the Limca Book of Records and the India Book of Records. He has served as Principal of leading schools in New Delhi, Guwahati, and Lucknow, and as Education Officer at GEMS Education, Gurgaon. As one of Udemy's leading instructors, he has created 500+ online courses, impacting 800,000+ learners across 180 countries. Dr. Mehrotra is the Founder of the IoT Society of India, a Member of the Academic Council for Promotion of AI in Education (CPAI-E), and a Mentor under the National Mission for Mentoring (NMM) by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), Government of India. Widely recognised for his visionary leadership and practical approach, he continues to inspire educators and institutions to embrace innovation, technology, and continuous improvement in building future-ready schools.