Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee

Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee is an Indian academic and the current vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, India.[1]

Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee
Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University
Assumed office
15 July 2017
ChancellorGovernor of West Bengal
Preceded byAshutosh Ghosh
Personal details
NationalityIndian
OccupationAcademic

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
  1. "Vice-Chancellors". www.caluniv.ac.in. University of Calcutta. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  2. "SCB" (PDF). Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  3. Aug 26. "Calcutta University gets full-term VC after more than 2 years". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  4. "Interim VC at CU, again". The Telegraph (india). Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  5. "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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