Professor Aarti Srivastava works in the Department of Higher and Professional Education, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA). Doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University and masters in both Economics and Education, she has worked in premier Research Institutes i.e. Institute of Applied Manpower Research (Planning Commission) and V.V.Giri National Labour Institute (Ministry of Labour), University of Delhi and Banaras Hindu University. While at BHU, she was associated with the Wisconsin University USA, centre in Varanasi. She has closely contributed to the NCF2005, (NCERT), World Social Science Curriculum (CBSE), Rockefeller funded project on South Asia, as well as been trained at IIEP, UNESCO, Paris. Currently she coordinates the National Resource Centre for Education and LEAP- Leadership programme in collaboration with Oxford University UK and Harvard University USA. Professor Srivastava led the inter-ministerial project with the Australian Government and was a special invitee at the BRICs President Forum in China. Professor Srivastava is on the editorial board of several indexed Journals apart from having published widely on Employability, Gender, Teaching- Learning and Leadership in Higher Education.