Rising Star

Charu Modi Bhartia '97
Vice Chairperson & CEO Modi Apollo International Group Pvt. Ltd.

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As a member of an entrepreneurial family, Charu made her mark in the field of higher education. Along with Apollo International Inc., she developed a unique model of higher education suited specifically for the emerging needs of developing India. The first centre of the Western International University, inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Delhi state, has had a resounding success.

Charu has closely worked with organizations such as Caron Foundation and Neuro Linguistic Programming, Decker Communication and Aspen Group to pioneer an educational model that successfully trains and prepares Indian health care workers to work in a Western culture. This has helped her launch her company Healthcare Placements India Pvt Limited. She is now successfully training nurses to work for the US and UK markets. The pilot phase of this model has won international accolades as being the first of its kind in Asia.

Charu's work has been published in leading newspapers and journals such as the Economic Times and Abhigyan (Asia’s leading journal in Organization and Management Studies). The Delhi Management Association (DMA) invited her as a Guest of Honour in a Higher Education Summit organized to deliberate on Management education in India. Her current research interests include the study of 'Migration of Paramedical Staff from India to Post Industrial West - a select diagnostic analysis'.

Charu is the eldest grandchild of Rai Bahadur GujarMal Modi, who pioneered many industries in Modinagar and established 25 educational institutions ranging from junior high schools to post-graduate educational institutions. Charu was educated at Lady Shriram College, New Delhi and Thunderbird.