Gitanjali is a social entrepreneur and educationist. After having founded several business and social ventures, she is setting up the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh, as its Founding CEO & Dean. HIAL is an alternative institute for mountain development that aims to revolutionize higher education in India through the pedagogy of contextual and experiential learning. Gitanjali is also the founder of the Tranformindia.com, a collective initiative in line with the forces of evolution to build new social, economic, cultural and political models in line with India's spirit, ethos and culture. Gitanjali is a spiritual seeker with a deep interest in Indian Spirituality. She is a lifelong student of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother, Sanskrit, Vedas & Upanishads and strives to apply her learnings gleaned from these sacred texts to indigenise existing educational frameworks.