Publish Date: 2024-01-24 16:11:57
Brij will focus on the system change strategy that BIRD has pursued with government, civil society, academia and media companies, spanning 28 years, including a mix of evidence-based-policymaking, advocacy, coalition-building with disability rights groups, design thinking, technology development, and legal tools. Having recently joined as Adjunct Professor at SPP, IIT-D, Brij is actively exploring cross-disciplinary collaboration with faculty and students.
Dr. Brij Kothari is an academic and social entrepreneur. He recently joined the School of Public Policy, IIT-D as Adjunct Professor. He leads the Billion Readers (BIRD) Initiative and is the founder of PlanetRead.org and BookBox.com. Brij conceived of Same Language Subtitling (SLS) on mainstream TV in India for mass reading literacy in 1996, while pursuing his Ph.D. in Education at Cornell University. Since then, he has researched and pushed for SLS in national broadcast policy on the faculty of IIM-Ahmedabad (1996-2023). He is an Ashoka Fellow, a Schwab Social Entrepreneur, the recipient of the International Literacy Prize from the Library of Congress, USA, and Co-Impact’s system change grant for BIRD. At IIT-D he is looking for collaboration, coffee, and tennis partners.