Board of Directors

Mrs Mankani- Founder,  Jumeirah International Nurseries, Fortes Education

Mrs. Mankani is the Founder of Jumeriah International Nurseries (JINS) and has also been instrumental in setting up Fortes Education’s various schools.

An educator at heart, Mrs. Mankani’s career has spanned teaching positions in the classroom to headship posts. Her guiding principle as an educator has always been to provide children the means to achieve excellence and to realise their full potential. Mrs. Mankani’s wealth of experience has enabled JINS to provide practical solutions to the challenges of delivering, assessing, monitoring, and evaluating early years’ curricula in all our Centres.

Mrs. Mankani works closely with a range of stakeholders (Nursery Managers, Early Years Educators & Practitioners, as well as children and parents) at each nursery and school to craft and implement both development and strategic plans. Mrs. Mankani ensures high standards of student conduct and academic achievement, as well as excellence in curriculum delivery, administration, governance and operations.

Katrina Mankani- Managing Director, Jumeirah International Nurseries, Director of Positive Education & Innovation

Katrina Mankani is the Managing Director of Jumeirah International Nurseries (JINS) and is responsible for strategics marketing, and human resources development at JINS.

Mrs. Mankani’s heart remains with young children, which led her to develop a career in early childhood education and childcare. Mrs. Katrina Mankani found her calling in the classroom, spending several years teaching in JINS before moving to Regent International School – a leading British National Curriculum school – where she spearheaded the embedding of the Education in Human Values programme across the school with a team of teachers. With her first love always being early childhood education, Mrs. Katrina Mankani then returned to JINS to pursue her first love.

Mrs. Mankani is a committed educationist with over a decade of teaching experience. She brings passion, innovation and an indefatigable spirit to developing JINS, as well as an intellectually deep fascination of how the minds of young children develop.

Mrs. Katrina Mankani graduated from Russia’s leading university, Moscow State University, with a Master’s in Public Administration, holds a PGCE and CACHE Level 3 certifications from the UK, and recently completed her M.Ed. in Private School Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Since 2016 Mrs. Katrina Mankani has also led the Positive Education initiative across all Fortes Institutions to ensure that students of all ages develop their emotional intelligence.

Sanjay Mankani- Managing Director, Fortes Education

Ajay Mankani- Managing Director, Fortes Holdings

Devika Mankani- Chief Psychologist, Board Member

Veena Vaswani- Founder, Board Member