N. Mythili is currently working as an Associate Professor at Mahindra University, Hyderabad. As a founding faculty for developing Indira-Mahindra School of Education, she started the Ph.D. programme in Education in 2021 and headed the school for a year. Currently, she is leading the research and discourse on School Leadership, and gender and school leadership in the Indian context through her research monographs and peer-reviewed articles published at international and national levels. Her recent works include ‘Women in School Leadership’; ‘Mastering the Art of Addressing the Ethical Dilemmas by Women Principals as a book chapter in the Bloomsbury International Handbook of Gender and Educational Leadership and; a book chapter in Regional Diversity and School Leadership in India with Springer Nature. Besides, she has worked on regulatory mechanisms of NCTE on Teacher Education in India. She reviews many national and international journals on educational leadership. Her research project (along with a group of principals working in CBSE schools) on ‘Pedagogical Leadership is being used to redefine the roles of principals as pedagogical leaders taking a shift from administrative roles in 30,000 schools affiliated to CBSE (India and Abroad), NVS and KVS schools. This theme on pedagogical leadership and its application to schools in the form of an Annual pedagogical Plan has been included in the School Quality Assessment and Accreditation Framework (SQAA) as a component, which all schools have to comply with as per the Gazette notification. Before, joining Mahindra University in 2021, she worked as Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, Delhi (NIEPA) from 2013 to 2021. She was deeply involved in research, large-scale implementation and professional development of school leaders known as the School Leadership Development Programme (SLDP) through the Ministry of Education, India. She was the national coordinator for 8 states for developing school leadership in India and has worked with all states and UTs of India in different capacities covering nearly 30,000 school heads. She was a member of the National Resource Group of the NISHTHA programme launched by NCERT in 2019. She designed and implemented the one-year Post Graduate Diploma in School Leadership and Management at NIEPA from 2014 to 2016. She has written modules on school leadership for NCSL-NIEPA, NCERT and the Government of Telangana that are being used by all government schools. Before joining NIEPA, she worked at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Azim Premji Foundation, Bengaluru, and the Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research, Dharwad, Karnataka. She completed her PhD from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, Karnataka in 2006.