Session Title

Servant Leadership in a Globalised World

Bio

Swami Nikhileswarananda currently heads Shri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Rajkot which is a branch centre of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math. Ramakrishna Math & Ramakrishna Mission, the distinguished worldwide organizations were started by Swami Vivekananda around 125 years back, having their Headquarters at Belur Math, (District – Howrah, West Bengal – 711 202) and presently have 265 branches all over the world.

He graduated in Chemical Engineering (with Honors) in 1970 from Government College of Engineering & Technology, Raipur (presently NIT) and post graduated in Industrial Engineering in 1972 from National Productivity Council. After working for a short period as a Management Consultant, he renounced the world and joined the Ramakrishna Order at its Headquarter at Belur Math in 1976. He was then posted to Ranchi (Jharkhand) from 1977 to 1986, where he guided the rural and tribal development project – ‘Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra’. He edited the Gujarati Monthly ‘Shri Ramakrishna Jyot’ published from Shri Ramakrishna Ashram, Rajkot (Gujarat) – (from 1989 to 2000).

He was the Head of Porbandar centre for eight years (from 1998 to 2005). He was instrumental in constructing 37 school buildings and three colonies in Porbandar district as a part of earthquake rehabilitation project and in starting Vivekananda Institute of Values Education & Culture (VIVEC) which was inaugurated by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the then President of India on January 12, 2006. From 2005 to 2017, he was the Head of Vadodara Centre. He was instrumental in converting ‘Dilaram Bungalow’ (sanctified by the stay of Swami Vivekananda in 1892) into a befitting memorial of Swami Vivekananda which was handed over by the then Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Narendra Modi to Ramakrishna Mission on 18th April, 2005.