Dr. Girish S. Bapat is the Director of Jnana Prabodhini, an educational institute in Pune, India, since November 1989. He has a doctorate degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Victoria, Canada. He also holds a Masters degree in Education and a Post-graduate diploma in Business Management. Himself an alumnus of Jnana Prabodhini’s school for the intellectually gifted, he also worked as the Principal of the school for five years. Jnana Prabodhini works in the fields of Education, Rural Development, Health, Social Organisation, Research and National Integration. As the Director, Dr. Bapat supervises and guides the activities in all these fields. Dr. Bapat is also the Chairman of Mensa India, which is a provisional National Chapter of Mensa International.
Dr. Bapat’s has developed group-tasks for high-school students, college students and adults and used these to train the participants in team-work. He has travelled to different parts of India to organize relief work and youth camps. He has conducted workshops for teachers and principals of schools and colleges on various topics like Project Methodology, Action Research, Training for Development of Behavioural Intelligence, Process-oriented Education, Futurology and Formative Evaluation Techniques. He has also written several articles in Marathi on the importance of attitude-formation and motivation building for personality development.