Bedi at the "Successful Women in Management" (SWIM) conference, 2007
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| Born | 9 June 1949 Amritsar, Punjab, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Panjab University Chandigarh University of Delhi IIT Delhi |
| Occupation | IPS Officer (1972–2012) Social activist |
| Spouse(s) | Brij Bedi |
| Awards | Suryadatta National Award 2007 United Nations Medal 2004 Ramon Magsaysay Award 1994 President’s Gallantry Award 1979 |
Kiran Bedi, has been India’s first and highest (woman) ranking officer who joined the Indian Police Service in 1972. Her expertise includes more than 35 years of creative and reformative policing and prison management.
She worked with the United Nations in New York as the Police Advisor to the Secretary General, in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations. She represented India in International forums on crime prevention, drug abuse, police and prison reforms and women's issues.
She holds a Law, Masters, Doctorate degree. She is also a Nehru Fellow (post doctoral) -- Been a National and an Asian Tennis champion. She has addressed audiences at the American, British, European, Indian Universities, Corporate and Civil Society groups.
She is a recipient of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award (also called the Asian Nobel Prize), and several other national and international decorations, Dr. Bedi has a biography, I Dare, anchors radio and television shows and is a columnist with leading newspapers and magazines.
She is the founder of two NGOs, Navjyoti and India Vision Foundation, which reach out to thousands of under -served children, women and men in the areas of education, vocational skills, environment, counseling, and health care to the urban and rural poor ,including prisoners and policemen's ' children. Currently her NGOs are running B-Schools in partnership with Universities and Vocational Institute to Indian youth.
Kiran Bedi has been voted as India's most admired (THE WEEK 2002), most trusted woman in India. (Readers Digest, March 2010, Navbharat Times 2012), MSN Most Admired Indian Female Icon 2011 and amongst top 10 women Icons of 2013 by The Economic Times.
A nonfiction feature film on Dr Bedi's life entitled Yes, Madam Sir has been produced by an Australian film maker, Megan Doneman. The film was adjudged the "Best Documentary" at Santa Barbara International Film Festival. It has been receiving standing ovation in most of its screenings around the world. May visitwww.kiranbedifilms.com
She has been in the vanguard of a nationwide India Against Corruption Movement lead by Anna Hazare. The movement finally got Lokpal Act.
Kiran is an author of several books, namely It's Always Possible, What Went Wrong, As I See, Broom and Groom and Uprising 2011..
For more information may visit her website www.kiranbedi.com or tweet @thekiranbedi
Kiran Bedi, one of the most celebrated and widely known police officers who ever served the Indian Police Force, was born in Amritsar, Punjab state, India. She is the second of the four daughters of her parents, Prakash Lal Peshawaria and Prem Lata Peshawaria.
Education
She did her schooling from the Sacred Heart Convent School, Amritsar, where she joined the National Cadet Corps (NCC). She also took up tennis, a passion she inherited from her father, who himself was a talented tennis player. Later, she obtained her B.A. in English (Hons.) (1964-68) from the Government College for Women, Amritsar. She then earned a Master's degree (1968-70) in Political Science from Punjab University, Chandigarh, topping the University.
Even while in active service in the Indian Police, she continued her educational pursuits, and obtained a Law degree (LLB) in 1988 from Delhi University, Delhi. In 1993, she did her Ph.D. from Social Sciences from the Department of Social Sciences, the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, where the topic of her thesis was 'Drug Abuse and Domestic Violence'.
Kiran Bedi won the Junior National Lawn Tennis Championship in 1966, the Asian Lawn Tennis Championship in 1972, and the All-India Interstate Women's Lawn Tennis Championship in 1976, besides this she also won the all-Asian tennis champion, and had won the Asian Ladies Title at the age of 22.
