Mr. Prakash Almeida likes to introduce himself as “a curious man and an n independent life-long learner”. 

Mr. Prakash Almeida has experience of over two decades of teaching English at various levels. After receiving his 18^th Masters degree and over a dozen various diplomas and more than that certificates in diverse areas of knowledge he is still studying more subjects to get a profound insightful multidisciplinary understanding of critical issues. Learning, he believes has no option in today’s knowledge driven globalised economy. KnowledgeFountain, the institute he founded has a powerful slogan “Our Knowledge. Your Power”. And as the Chief Knowledge Officer, he continually strives to justify it. KnowledgeFountain, as the name says, aims at becoming a “Fountain of knowledge” for people. People can drink and quench their thirst at a fountain any time, anywhere and drink as much as they want. KnowledgeFountain aspires to serve people with empowering knowledge to enable them to survive and thrive.   It is based on the firm realization as encapsulated by the legendary management guru Peter Drucker as “Knowledge is and will be the basic economic resource.” One must compete with knowledge to win. Only knowledge creates true value. And India’s legendary scientific mind Prof. CNR Rao, the Bharat Ratna said, “Today’s knowledge is tomorrow’s wealth.” 

But we live in an era where knowledge also depreciates and one cannot compete with yesterday’s knowledge and win today and thrive tomorrow. KnowledgeFountain is committed to offer fresh stream of knowledge.   

Identifying the widening gap between demand and supply of knowledge (and not information); Mr. Prakash Almeida zealously founded KnowledgeFountain to offer knowledge-based services to business community and people at large. 

To develop a interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary insight Mr. Almeida explored various disciplines a the master degree level. He holds multiple masters degrees in over 19 disciplines such as linguistics, Literature, economics, management, defence and strategic studies, distance education, disaster management, international relations, environment and ecology, knowledge management, education, rural development, disaster management, sociology, political science, philosophy and religion, Psychology, history, media studies, Gandhi and Peace Studies, amongst others. He is UGC NET in Defence and Strategic Studies and Linguistics. He is currently working on various research projects. He  brings a holistic, multi-disciplinary perspective to businesses in evolving contexts. He is a two-times gold medalist of Indira Gandhi National Open University and received many other awards and honours. He studied knowledge management at IIM-Ahmadabad, IIM-Calcutta, and IIT Mumbai. He holds certifications in Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development from IIT Madras and Kharagpur. He has completed over 20 online certificate programs with NPTEL/SWAYAM and has been awarded specially honoured.  He is associated with many institutions. He has been delivering workshops and other training sessions on a variety of subjects. As a senior instruction designer he has designed many instructor-led and distance education programs. He has resented research papers in various national and international conferences. He is an author, editor and translator of many books, articles, and special issues. He is a senior instruction designer and knowledge management specialist. He is a well known speaker on various subjects. He is founder-director of KnowledgeFountain, EnglishFountain and Career Development Centre.  He is well known teacher of the English language and conducts teacher training workshops. 

Mr. Almeida has authored, edited and translated a good number of books, articles, and special reports. Since his junior college days he single-mindedly became engrossed in the study of Indian Freedom Struggle and studied the tragedy of the partition of India and studied it for over nine years and produced a five-book series on partition of India. The last book in the series “These Truths Must Be Told” is upcoming. 

He is founder of KnowledgeFountain Group of Institutes (www.knowledgefountain.org) His areas of interests are leadership studies, environment and Ecology, public policy, geo-economics and geo-politics, environment and ecology, governance and philosophy, linguistics, literature, etc. He has conducts awareness workshops for teachers, parents and students. 

Recently he has taken up a huge initiative to train hundreds of school teachers in knowledge management with a vision to usher in a huge knowledge-revolution starting from school classrooms. He has undertaken new initiatives such as “Raising Confident Readers. 

To develop thought leadership he has launched “Knowledge Fountain Institute of Thought Leadership and Development”. Deeply concerned about environment and sustainability he has launched various Forums dedicated to climate change involving various key stakeholders such as CEOs, Architects, Doctors, and others.  is pursuing his research in India’s nuclear security policy. He is pursuing public policy and research program at Vision India Foundation.

He heads a team of dedicated knowledge professionals and networks with leading knowledge professionals from various domains.