Professor Sandeep Sancheti is an Institution Builder, Policy Planner, Regular Columnist on various academic policies. He holds a Ph.D from Queens University of Belfast UK, M.Sc. (Engg.) from DTU Delhi and B.Tech from NIT Warangal. He is currently the Vice President – Research Relations & Academic Ambassador, Elsevier India. He is also serving/served many professional bodies like FICCI, CII, EPSI, IUCEE, NAAC, DST, CSIR, DRDO, TEQIP, AIM, ACU, ANZIBC, IISF, CIPU, SPIC MACAY etc. in different capacities. He was a member of the Court & Council of IISc Bangalore as well as a member of Board/Senate of many other academic institutions. In addition, he is/was on various national level committees of MHRD/MOE, UGC, AICTE and AIU for education related matters and had been a part of several Indian delegations abroad. He was also invited to address the Members of Parliament, Govt. of India on educational matters.
Formerly Dr. Sancheti headed Seven NITs like NITK Surathkal, NIT Trichy, NIT Calicut, NIT Delhi, and SPA Delhi (all institutions of national importance) as Director. He has also led self-financed institutions like Manipal University Jaipur as President, SRMIST Chennai as Vice Chancellor and Marwadi University Rajkot as Provost. He is a recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship & Fellowship under Colombo Plan and was a Visiting Faculty at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Bangkok. He is the Past President of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) New Delhi and the Executive Council Member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) London.