Founder Profile

Innovative educator, researcher & serial entrepreneur, Aneesa has been involved with innovative work in school education for the past 14 years. She is the founder of Cogitation Club & Al Qamar Academy. Aneesa is a CEE-Change Fellow at the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) & a Global Fellow at the Center for Climate Literacy, University of Minnesota. Aneesa holds micro-credentials from the Civic Ecology Lab at Cornell University, NatGeo & The Circle.  She is currently completing her certification for PBL Design from PBLWorks, Climate Stories Ambassadorship & Climate Interactive's En-Roads Ambassadorship. An alumna of Smith College, USA & an MBA from the University of Washington, she is currently pursuing her PhD in Education at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Her research work focuses on Project Based Learning, environmental education and climate change education. Learn more at ORCID

Hauroon, a B.Tech from IIT Madras, worked with top multinational companies like Microsoft and Infosys. At Microsoft, Redmond, he was a part of the product teams.  He was also a consultant to various companies in India before switching full time to education.  Hauroon designed the pedagogy and the STEM program at Al Qamar Academy & Cogitation. He designs and conducts modules on mathematical & logical thinking math classes, inquiry based science & enriched Math/Physics for engineering aspirants. His students have won prizes at science fairs and international math competitions.