Professor Selva Pankaj is an educator, knowing vs doing gap researcher and an educational leader. He co-founded Regent College London (RCL) with his life and business partner Tharshiny Pankaj in 2000, by providing private tuition for £20. In 1990, he started his life in the UK at the age of 19, growing up in war-torn Sri Lanka and coming to the UK with just £100 given to him by his father. 

He qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant and then achieved his MBA, when he was with Prudential Financial, Inc. for a decade since 1994. He spent the next five years in the real estate investment management sector and worked for Schroder, Grosvenor and Fortress Investment Group until 2008. In 2009, he became the CEO of Regent Global, a global technology-enabled education, real estate investment and management organisation. The group is celebrating 20 years of valuable service to its consumers. 

He had the great fortune to be the student of the late Professor Clayton Christensen at Harvard Business School in 2015, which changed his life completely in the quest to understand the meaning of natural laws, compared to manmade laws. He is spearheading RCL’s rapid and ground-breaking transformative evolution into a new British university, with the mission of creating a society with a growth mindset, instilling the belief that the end result of education is character and championing the lifelong learning habit. The entire project is indeed a paradigm shift.