About us

Regent Global’s joint CEOs Selva and Tharshiny Pankaj founded Regent with Selva’s late father in 2000. The business began as a modest private tuition service in 1999 followed by a further education college. From the outset, Regent has succeeded by serving the community. Initially the company provided accessible further and higher education in London. Regent Global is now a global education, economy building and impactful investment business.

Regent Global's footprint extends to the UK, United States, Dubai, GCC, India and beyond. Through strategic partnerships with educational institutions in India, Sri Lanka and the USA, Regent Global has cemented its reputation as a global provider of quality education, serving communities across the world, Regent Global also makes impactful investments and works in economy building, supporting the goals of the organisations and governments it partners with.

Regent Global joint CEOs Selva and Tharshiny Pankaj are globally-minded: both fled civil war in Sri Lanka and found safety in the UK, and they are proud British citizens with residencies in Dubai and the USA as well as Sri Lankan passports.

Education is Selva and Tharshiny’s passion. Selva still teaches and has written books to help students and adults achieve the success they want. All Regent Global students have access to his books Thinking into Character and The Power of Learning from DAD, and the supporting education programmes. Selva has also created educational programmes based on the ideas of Napoleon Hill and Earl Nightingale, called Think and Grow Rich and The Mindset, respectively. Selva is a lifelong learner himself. He holds an MBA and went to London Business School, followed by Harvard Business School, Oxford University and Stanford Graduate School as part of his executive education.

Tharshiny started her career teaching ICT and Computing at a sixth form college. As Academic Registrar, Tharshiny has been instrumental in upholding and advancing the educational standards at Regent College London. Her leadership over the last 20 years has established Regent Global as a beacon of educational excellence.

Regent Global’s achievements have been acknowledged in several ways:

● Regent won the GG2 Leadership and Diversity Awards Award for Excellence in Education in 2023. The company was ranked 45th in FEBE’s Growth 100 list the same year. In 2022 Regent was recognised in The Times Top 100 list as one of the fastest-growing education companies in the UK.

● Selva and Tharshiny were included in the GG2 Power List of 2024’s 101 most influential Asians and in the Asian Rich List 101 Wealthiest Asians 2024 and 2025.

● Tharshiny was awarded CEO of the year at the GG2 Leadership and Diversity Awards 2024.

● Selva won Entrepreneur of the Year at the British Sri Lankan Awards 2023, Businessman of the Year at the London Asian Business Awards 2019 and Entrepreneur of the Year at the Asian Achievers Awards 2016. Selva received two honorary doctorates in 2019 for his contribution to education.