Bhaskar Pant is the Executive Director of MIT Professional Education, the arm of MIT that provides technical professionals a gateway to MIT expertise via education courses and programs designed for them. Under Mr. Pant’s leadership, MIT Professional Education has increased substantially its program offerings, corporate relationships and global outreach, engaging professionals in more than 120 countries participating in its on-campus, international and more recently launched online and hybrid programs. Courses addressing cutting edge topics such as big data, artificial intelligence and internet of things, combined with professional development courses in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship, have benefited thousands of professionals around the globe. Mr. Pant served on MIT President’s task force on “The Future of Education at MIT” contributing specifically on the sub-committee addressing “Bringing MIT to the World”. Under a global outreach initiative launched by Mr. Pant, MIT Professional Education is offering MIT short courses in increasing international locations in Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Europe. Prior to joining MIT, Mr. Pant held senior leadership positions in academic and corporate organizations around the globe. Most recently, he served as Managing Director, Asia Pacific, for the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the world’s foremost academic testing organization, under which he was responsible for overseeing the company’s English language testing operations for a region extending from Afghanistan to New Zealand. This included the opening of subsidiaries in India and China that administered the TOEIC English proficiency test for engineers and other working professionals.