B. Narahri Rao is born in 1946 in Mangalore, India. He had his Graduation in Chemistry and Masters degree in Philosophy (with honours) in Dharwar and Mysore respectively. At the University of Mysore, subsequently he acted there as a Research Fellow. He taught philiosophy at the University ofBang alore and engaged in rural development. He contributed to the establishment of the "Centre for Informal Education and Development Studies (CIEDS)" known to date as "Society for Informal Education and Development Studies (SIEDS)". 

As student and teacher he went to Europe in the late 70ties and acted at a number of European universities. In 1991 he obtained his doctorate in Philiosophy (summa cum laude) at the Universität des Saarlandes and habilitated there in 1997 with a thesis on Cultural Learning. He is Privatdozent (Adj. Professor) at the Universität des Saarlandes, collaborates in a research project of the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG) on „Lexicalisation in Discourse“ and was Visiting Professor at two universities, Kanpur (Indian Institute of Technology) and Lille (Belgium).

Narahari Rao is the author of numerous academic essays. Relevant publication for this iniative:

• "Inter-Cultural Dialogue as a Form of Liberal Education", Lecture at the Socratic Dialogue Conference, Berlin, July 2005
• ‘Der Bildungsbegriff in Humboldts Konzept der Universiät und Wege zu seiner Erneuerung’ in: Karl-Otto Apel und Holger Bruckhardt (Hrsg), "Prinzip Verantwortung - Grundlage für Ethik und Pädagogik" Köbigshausen und Neumann, Würzburg 2001, S. 227-236
• "Begriff der Universität" in: Kai Buchholz, Shahid Rahman und Ingrid Weber (Hrsg.), "Wege zur Vernunft", Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1999
• "Culture as Learnables: An Outline for a Research on the Inherited Traditions", Memo 30, Fachrichtung Philosophie, Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. K. Lorenz, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbücken 1997
• "Making and Discovering", in: Gerhard Heinzmann (Hrsg.), Actes du Colloque International Nelson Goodman Pont-à-Mousson 1997. Philosophia Scientiae, Volume 2, Cahier 2, Nancy, 1997, 197-211
• "Warum sollen andere Traditionen 'respektiert' werden", in: Johannes Hoffmann (Hrsg.), "Die Vernunft in den Kulturen - Das Menschenrecht auf kultureigene Entwicklung", Band III der Smyposien 'Das eine Menschenbild für alle und die vielen Lebensformen', IKO-Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Frankfurt a.M., 1995
• "A Semiotic Reconstruction of Ryle’s Critique of Cartesianism", de Gruyter, Berlin 1994
• "Verstehen einer fremden Kultur", in: Petra Matusche und Goethe Institut München (Hrsg.), "Wie verstehen wir Fremdes - Aspekte zur Klärung von Verstehensprozessen", Goethe Institut, München, 1989

The concept of renewing the Humboldtean educational model was developed by Narahari Rao in 1999. At a workshop with e5 in 2008 Julio Lambing, Sebastian Gallehr and Narahari Rao extented the Humboldtean educational model towards a „Green Skill Revolution“.