Pradeep Kumar Misra is the Professor and Director of the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE) at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi, India. He has previously served as a Professor of Education and was the Head of the Department of Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education at Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. His research specializations are teacher education, educational technology, and vocational education.
He has received several prestigious international research scholarships like the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship of CSC, UK; Doctoral and Senior Researcher Scholarship of DAAD, Germany; Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar Scholarship of European Commission; National Scholarship of Slovak Republic; MASHAV Scholarship of Israel Government; and Research Exchange Scholarship of FMSH, France. He is also the recipient of the Joint Research Project under ICSSR (India) and NIHSS (South Africa) and a member of the academic bodies of several institutions and organizations in India and abroad.
He published widely in journals of international repute, authored reference books, including his popular book learning and teaching for teachers, completed research and development projects, developed educational media programs, and supervised Ph.D. scholars. His educational visits include Germany, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Nederland, Sweden, Spain, Slovakia, Austria, New Zealand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Israel, Japan, and South Africa.