Board of Directors

Dileep Ranjekar, the Chief Executive Officer of Azim Premji Foundation, is a science Graduate and has a Post Graduate Diploma of Business Management as well as Master’s degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He was appointed from campus by Wipro and became the Corporate Executive Vice President Human Resources. In addition to the Human Resources function, he also provided leadership to several functions such as human resource development, quality, brand, facilities and communication for the entire Wipro Corporation.

During his leadership, Wipro was assessed the world’s first PCMM (People Capability Maturity Model) Level 5 organization by the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie-Melon University.

Dileep was an integral part of the Azim Premji Foundation right from its conception. The Foundation has a vision to “significantly contribute to achieve quality universal education that facilitates a just, equitable and humane society” and the Foundation has been operational since 2001.

The Foundation is focused on contributing to systemic changes such as building accountability for quality education by demonstrating that comprehensive quality education can be achieved in rural Government schools. The Foundation believes that teachers, parents and the education managers are the key change agents, examination reforms as the key change tool and technology as a key change enabler to influence quality of education in a significant manner.

The Foundation has over 250 professionals and several hundred volunteers working towards realizing its vision through the Foundation’s current engagement with over 20,000 rural government schools where more than 2.5 Mln children study across 16 Indian states.

Azim Premji Foundation has been the recipient of the Economic Times award for the best corporate social citizen in 2007 and the learning guarantee program of the Foundation has been felicitated as the Innovation of the year in education by Marico Innovation Foundation in March 2008.