DR. C. VIJAYAKUMAR
is the Senior Director of TIESGLOBAL. He holds a doctoral degree from Kerala University and served at EdCIL from 1993 to 2005. He also organized the FIRST Ever Educational Exposition of Indian Educators ABROAD in 2000 during his service at EdCIL. The first Education fair covered five countries. After resigning from EdCIL, he served as DIRECTOR- International Relations in private educational institutions like Acharya Institutes Bangalore and Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT). He was spearheading the internationalization in these institutions, including recruiting thousands of foreign students, establishing collaborations, and increasing student and faculty mobility with foreign universities. Dr. Vijayakumar also served, before joining Ed.CIL, with the South India Textile Research Association (SITRA) Coimbatore (an autonomous body under the Ministry of Textiles) as a Senior Scientific Officer and was responsible for hosting short-term training for Foreign Nationals from over 90 countries, sponsored under the ITEC/SAARC/COLOMBO Plan schemes from 1981 until his resignation in 1992.
