Vikas Pota is an entrepreneur and investor in education and digital in businesses that seek to address some of the sector's intractable challenges and to advance education quality and opportunity.
He is the Executive Chair of the Education Leaders Forum, where he convenes the CEOs and leaders of many of the world’s biggest and most influential education businesses to advance their growth. Vikas is also the Founder of Inicio Partners, an executive search firm dedicated to helping education institutions, technology companies, and social impact organisations find their best leadership talent. In 2020 he founded T4 Education to build a community of transformative school leaders. He has previously led the rebrand of a major education business, built a corporate venture capital fund, and run a philanthropic foundation. He hosts the EdVance podcast, speaking to leading lights in education on the greatest lessons they’ve learned about driving higher performance.
Vikas founded the World’s Best School Prizes - the world’s most prestigious education awards - to surface the expertise and share the best practices of schools that are changing lives in their classrooms and far beyond their walls. He also established the Best School to Work programme to help schools and school chains attract and retain the best teachers by transforming their working environments. Every year he hosts the World Schools Summit in the UAE - bringing together the leaders who will forge a new vision for education to meet the challenges of a world changing beyond recognition.
Vikas is a published author, has written for the Financial Times and the Guardian, among many other publications, and is a regular commentator in the media on trends for education businesses and the sector at large. He has been recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and as one of London’s 1,000 most influential persons by the Evening Standard. Vikas was named European regional honouree for the 2022 YPO Global Impact Award and has been awarded two honorary doctorates by leading universities.
He serves on the boards of several non-profit, was an Honorary Lecturer at UCL Institute of Education, a Visiting Practitioner at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and served as a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Science & Policy.
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