Kartikeya Sarabhai

Kartikeya Sarabhai

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Category: Environment , Business

Kartikeya Sarabhai Profile

  • Name:
  • Kartikeya Sarabhai
  • Born:
  • November 27, 1947
  • Father:
  • Vikram Sarabhai
  • Mother:
  • Mrinalini Sarabhai

Kartikeya Sarabhai Biography

Padma Shri Kartikeya Sarabhai is an environmental educator from Ahmedabad, Gujarat. A member of Sarabhai industrial family, many of his family members established themselves in different fields and earned success and fame. Ambalal Sarabhai, Vikram Sarabhai, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Mallika Sarabhai, Anasuya Sarabhai, Gautam Sarabhai, Revanta Sarabhai and Mridula Sarabhai are among other famous members of Sarabhai business family, associated with the fields of arts, business, politics etc. Kartikeya Sarabhai is the son of celebrated couple, Vikram Sarabhai and dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai. His sister, Mallika Sarabhai is an activist and classical dancer.

 

Kartikeya Sarabhai was born into a rich business family of Ahmedabad, with many of them related to arts and science fields too. Kartikeya is the son of space scientist Vikram Sarabhai and dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai, and thus a member of Sarabhai family. He is the grandson of industrialist Ambalal Sarabhai, the senior most member of Sarabhai family and one of the leading businessmen in British India. Kartikeya Sarabhai was educated in Cambridge, UK and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sarabhai is the founder and director of the Centre for Environment Education, with head office at Ahmedabad and over 40 offices in different parts of the country. He also serves as the chairman of Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprises, started by his grandfather.

 

As an environmentalist he is associated with several government organizations and NGO. He also serves as a member of many such organizations to save nature and environment, and has been a delegate member representing India at several international conferences and discussions. Sarabhai is the co-chair of the Global Citizenship Working Group of the Learning Metrics Task Force 2.0, and has received numerous honours such as Tree of Learning Award (1998), World Human Rights Promotion Award (2005) etc. In 2012 he was conferred with Padma Shri by government of India.

Published: January 07, 2019

Updated: January 07, 2019

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