Speaker
Founder, Design for Change
Kiran Bir Sethi is an Indian designer, educationist, education reformer, and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of The Riverside School, Ahmedabad, India and of Design for Change. She also initiated the aProCh movement. Born in Bangalore, India, Sethi comes from a family of designers. With a degree in visual communication from the National Institute of Design,Ahmedabad, she began her career designing restaurants, and later, writing for newspapers. While she had always been interested in design thinking and designing experiences, it was when her children started going to school that Sethi recognised her true calling. Dismayed by the unfriendly and rigid atmosphere in schools, she set up The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, followed by aProCh, and finally Design for Change.