Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee
Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee | |
|---|---|
| Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University | |
| Assumed office 15 July 2017 | |
| Chancellor | Governor of West Bengal |
| Preceded by | Ashutosh Ghosh |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Academic |
Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee is an Indian academic and the current vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, India.[1]
Biography
Banerjee completed her Bachelor's studies from Presidency College, Kolkata (as a graduating student of the University of Calcutta), and subsequently, earned her postgraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Calcutta.[2]
Banerjee is a professor of political science. In August 2017 she was appointed as the vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, after the then vice-chancellor Suranjan Das was transferred to Jadavpur University.[3]
She is the daughter of Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakravarty, and she is married to Alapan Bandyopadhyay, who is now serving as a chief secretary of West Bengal.[4]
She and her husband were sent into quarantine when she was contact-traced to the first reported case of COVID-19 in West Bengal.[5]
References
- ^ "Vice-Chancellors". www.caluniv.ac.in. University of Calcutta. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "SCB" (PDF). Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ Aug 26. "Calcutta University gets full-term VC after more than 2 years". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Interim VC at CU, again". The Telegraph (india). Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "How Mother of Bengal's First COVID-19 Patient 'Sent' State Home Secretary and 10 Others Into Isolation". News18. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
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