The future reflects your life choices deeply inspired by the real person within you. As the Ex. Ranji Player, Senior Educationist, Sports Mentor, and Educational Diplomat- Dr Dinesh Sabnis’s life echoes his choices inspired by his innate love and passion for education & diplomacy. He philosophizes it in Nelson Mandela’s beautiful quote, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Education has always been an evolving field with various concepts of the learning process; however, it is also believed that education has been an important and vibrant field for many generations, not only in India but at the global level. Good education inspires individuals and builds self-esteem and overall quality of life. From childhood, Dr Sabnis was always passionate towards teaching and learning concepts and doing something for the society. His mom was in the education field, and she was his first inspiration, which made him choose this field as he strongly believed that education was a vital tool in building a good and developed society.
He began his career as an Indian Customs official and was a passionate Sports person. In his early teens, Dr Sabnis represented Ranji Trophy (National Level) for Mumbai Team under the leadership of Senior players such as Sachin Tendulkar, Sanjay Manjrekar and Coach Balwinder Singh Sandhu. During his playing period, he also gave equal importance to learning and completing his studies.
The Power Play
Later as his playing career was on the verge of retirement, he opted for Bachelor’s in Physiotherapy and later completed a Master’s and Doctorate in Physical Education. He didn’t stop there but he also completed Executive Masters in International Studies & Diplomacy. His learning journey was always amazing, and as he completed his doctorate, it was his giving back time of knowledge and experience in education and diplomacy to the society.
After working for almost 15 years in Indian Customs Department (Ministry of Finance-Government of India), Dr Sabnis shifted his career from government official to education. He began teaching Physical Education as a subject in IB, IGCSE and ICSE schools in Mumbai. In the past 18 years, he achieved promotions from teacher to the Head of the Department to the Sports Director and has now served for the last seven years as Asst General Manager–Sports and Activities in Ashoka Group of Schools, Nashik, India.
Dr.Sabnis worked in the core subject of Sports Science and Physical Education for almost 18 years, mostly teaching and delivering lectures in IB, IGCSE and ICSE Board patterns of studies through various schools. He also simultaneously continued working for various International NGOs & IGOs on projects related to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) such as Quality Education, Peace Mediations, Diplomacy & International Relations. This exploration of various fields in Co-curricular Activities and UN SDG projects gave him experience beyond boundaries and an opportunity to mature his educational concepts and international relations other than Sports & health as a core topic.

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