Varunan Balasubramaniam is currently working as a freelance educational consultant where he focuses on developing and setting up creative education institutions in India. He has overall 20 years of experience, as an academician and his forte has been academic management, international university liaison, design and develop new programs in the field of Design & Media and creative arts. He was working as Chief Executive at Annapurna College of Film and Media www.acfm.edu.in for the past 5 years. He has 18 years experience in communication design and has been a campus head and subject head at ICAT Design & Media College, www.icat.ac.in Hyderabad.As a creative education consultant he focuses on mentoring design education institutions to develop their programs, support them in the process of validation / affiliation with International and Indian universities, Building new campuses, Infrastructure planning and resource optimisation, Brand promotion and Marketing their school, Staff Recruitment, Training & Development, connecting institution's with International professional bodies.As a design education consultant, and in collaboration with ISDC https://isdcglobal.org he is currently setting up International school of Creative Arts - https://iscaglobal.org/ - Kochi - as Project Head, which is affiliated with University of West Scotland and Liverpool John Moore university. Setting up of communication design, fashion, film programmes.School of Design Media and Creative Arts for Jain Deemed to be University - Bangalore - https://www.jainuniversity.ac.in/sdmca in Bangalore. Setting up of communication design, fashion, film and media, Game development programmes Yenepoya deemed to be university - mangalore https://www.yenepoya.edu.in - setting up of communication design and fashion design programs Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology- Indore https://www.aurogroup.ac/sait - setting up of Design programs JECRC University - Jaipur https://jecrcuniversity.edu.in - setting up communication design programs. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in Liberal Studies from PDP university and has his certifications from National Skill Development Council, Indian Design Council and Birmingham City University. His research interests are in the field of creative education, augmented reality, virtual reality and innovation. Varunan has been a public speaker and has conducted creative education seminars in various schools and colleges across India and has presented his research papers at international conferences.