Visionaries of $5 Trillion Economy: Re-imagining Future-Ready Education for India

Abstract

India’s higher-education landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, and few leaders have shaped this shift as decisively as Siddharth Shahani. As the Executive President and Co- Founder of ATLAS SkillTech University, Mumbai’s first new-age multidisciplinary urban university, he has pioneered a model that unites academic excellence, technological fluency, and industry-integrated learning under one ambitious vision. He represents a first generation of education entrepreneurs, one who has built a university ecosystem where innovation, design, entrepreneurship, and technology converge seamlessly to develop future-ready leaders for nation-building.