Rajesh Kumar Thakur
Rajesh Kumar Thakur currently works as a director at the National Vedic Maths Academy, a branch of the All India Ramanujan Maths Club, Gujarat. He has postgraduate degrees in three diverse subjects: mathematics, operations research and education. He has been teaching secondary and senior secondary school students for the past twelve years and has written over twenty books and around 100 articles on mathematics. To popularize Vedic mathematics, he has conducted over 180 nationwide seminars and trained more than 40,000 students. He has conducted several talks on All India Radio and at the National Level Maths Quiz Show. He has also written many poems, dozens of which have been published in various magazines of repute. Thakur has received many awards, including the National Best Teacher Award from AIRMC in 2010.