Prof. Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

Geeta Gandhi Kingdon is the Manager of City Montessori School (CMS) in Lucknow, founded by her parents 65 years ago. With a BSc Honours in Economics from the London School of Economics, and an MSc and DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, she moved to India in 2010 after 31 years in the UK. Kingdon continues to serve as a part-time tenured Professor of Economics of Education at the Institute of Education, University College London (UCL), where she held the Chair of Education and International Development until April 2024, and now is an Emeritus Professor since May 2024. Under her leadership, CMS, with over 63,000 students across 21 campuses, is recognized in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s largest school in a city. The school emphasizes strong academics, personality development, and global citizenship education.