Maria Nirmalini
Maria Nirmalini, superior general of the Apostolic Carmel congregation, is the president of the Conference of Religious India, the national body of religious major superiors, an office she has held since January 2021. An educator most of her life, she has been honored with awards for best principal and best teacher by the state government of Delhi and also received the World Disaster Education Award from the International Association of Educators for World Peace.