Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee

Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee is an Indian academician who is the past vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta.[1]

Not to be confused with Sonali Chakraborty.
Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee
Vice Chancellor of University of Calcutta
Assumed office
15 July 2017
ChancellorGovernor of West Bengal
Preceded byAshutosh Ghosh
Personal details
NationalityIndian
SpouseAlapan Bandyopadhyay
OccupationAcademic

Career

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] 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 first lady Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta.

Personal life

She is a daughter of Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakravarty and freedom fighter Sushama Chakravarti. She is married to Alapan Bandyopadhyay, who was the former Chief Secretary to the Government of West Bengal and now serving as the Chief Advisor to the Chief Minister of West Bengal.[4]

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.


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