AsiaOne – August 2018

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PERSON OF THE YEAR

BY ANAM KUMAR

Passionately dedicated to education, Dr. Vandana

Gandhi has painstaingly created two parallel

avenues - passing through one she has kept alive her

zeal to learn afresh each day every day as she has

been earning educational degrees for herself, while

through the other she has founded British Orchard

Nurseries in the Middle East

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On A Life-Long

Journey of

Learning

elieving that one must consistently work on improving one’s

own self and what better way other than education, Dr. Gandhi

has earned a Mathematics honors degree and a Post Graduate

Diploma in International Business, distinction in Master’s in

Education from the UK, and a Doctorate in Education from the University

of Birmingham, UK.

Simultaneously, she has founded the only ISO 9001, 14001, 18001

certified nursery chain in the Middle East - British Orchard Nurseries.

FIRM BASE FIRST

Born and brought up in Abu Dhabi, UAE to Indian parents, Dr. Gandhi’s

passion for education led her to Mumbai University in India where she

studied Maths, completed a postgraduate diploma in International

Business and started working for multinational banks. Not long after

“I’M A GREAT

BELIEVER IN

HARD WORK. I

ALWAYS SAY:

SUCCESS IS

99 PER CENT

PERSPIRATION

AND 1 PER CENT

INSPIRATION”

DR. VANDANA GANDHI