Vidya Yeravdekar

Dr. Vidya Yeravdekar is the Principal Director of Symbiosis Society, which encompasses the Symbiosis schools and institutions under the Symbiosis International University. A dream dreamt by her father Padma Bhushan Dr. S .B Mujumdar 43 years ago of creating a home away from home for international students, Symbiosis today has transformed itself into a multi-disciplinary, multinational, multi-cultural International University having students from all states of India and international students from 80 different countries. The University has institutes under 7 faculties namely Management, Law, Humanities & Social Sciences, Health & Biomedical Sciences, IT, Engineering, Media Communication & Design.
Dr. Vidya holds a Post Graduate Degree in Medicine, a degree in Law and has earned PhD in Internationalization of Higher Education in India. To promote international understanding through quality education, she has initiated innovative approaches at Symbiosis International University through international collaborations with some of the top Universities in the world. She inherits very strong values of passion and foresight from her father and has intense social and ethical concerns which indulges her in many philanthropic enterprises to provide education for the less fortunate.
Dr. Vidya served with the Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman before she returned to India in 1997 to join Symbiosis.

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