Dhruv Global schoolPrincipal & Leadership Team

Dhruv Global School is governed by Directors Yash Malpani and Anishkaa Malpani, under the chairmanship of Dr. Sanjay Malpani, founder of the Dhruv Group of Schools — an India-based educational group with over 20 years of operational heritage and six campuses across Sangamner, Pune, and Vadodara. This is the group's first international campus, which brings institutional depth to what is otherwise a brand-new school in Dubai. Parents should weigh that founding experience against the reality that the Dubai operation itself is still in its earliest stages.

Academic leadership is headed by Principal Dr. Ritika Anand, who holds a PhD in Chemistry from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra, and brings meaningful Dubai school experience to the role, having previously served as Principal of Deira Private School and Vice Principal at GEMS Winchester School, Jebel Ali. Notably, Dr. Anand was appointed in April 2025 — approximately seven months after the school opened in September 2024 — meaning the school navigated its founding year under different leadership. This is a material fact for parents to note, though Dr. Anand's prior experience in senior Dubai school roles provides reasonable reassurance about her readiness for the position.

Supporting her is a structured Senior Leadership Team: Afshan Asim as Head of Kindergarten, Jagmeet Kaur as Head of Primary, Deepika Singh as Head of Inclusion, and Athira Nair as Head of Assessment. The school's published staff roster lists 28 primary teaching staff and 17 kindergarten staff, covering specialist roles in science, mathematics, English, Arabic, French, Hindi, PE, yoga, swimming, ELL, and SEND — a breadth that signals genuine investment in staffing across disciplines for a school of this scale. [MISSING: total student enrolment figure, preventing calculation of a verified student-teacher ratio for comparison against the Dubai city average of 1:13.6 across 204 schools].

As a school that opened in September 2024 and has not yet completed a full academic year under its current principal, DGS has not yet been inspected by DSIB/KHDA. No inspection rating, governance rating, or teaching quality findings are therefore available. Among the two CBSE-curriculum schools in Dubai tracked by the city index, both are currently classified as New Schools — meaning DGS is not unusual in this regard, but parents cannot yet benchmark its quality against an independent regulatory assessment. Staff qualification levels, retention data, and WSA commentary are likewise [MISSING] at this stage.

On school culture, the leadership vision is clearly articulated around the integration of 26 Yogic Values drawn from the Bhagavad Gita, aligned with the UAE Moral Education Framework. Parent engagement is embedded in this model through home-based value challenges, monthly newsletters, and family reflection activities. The open-door policy referenced in school communications reflects an intent to build a transparent, community-facing culture — though how this translates in practice will only become evident as the school matures and approaches its first regulatory inspection.