Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee is an Indian academician who is the past vice-chancellor of the

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered ...

Career

Banerjee completed her Bachelor's studies from

Presidency College, Kolkata Presidency University, Kolkata (formerly known as Presidency College, Kolkata) is a second major public state aided research university located in College Street, Kolkata. Considered as one of best colleges when Presidency College was affili ...

(as a graduating student of the

), and subsequently, earned her postgraduate and doctoral degrees from the

. 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 Jadavpur University is a public state university located in Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established in 1905 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into Jadavpur University in 1955. In 2022, it was ranked fourth am ...

. She is the first lady Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta.

Personal life

She is a daughter of Bengali poet

Nirendranath Chakravarty Nirendranath Chakravarty (19 October 1924 – 25 December 2018) was a contemporary Bengali poet, Translator, Novelist. He lived in Bangur Avenue, Kolkata. Biography He was born in Faridpur district of undivided Bengal in 1924. After graduati ...

and freedom fighter Sushama Chakravarti. She is married to

Alapan Bandyopadhyay Alapan Bandyopadhyay (born 17 May 1961) is an ex-Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and former Chief Secretary of State for the Government of West Bengal. He is Chief Advisor for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee since 1 June 2021. He too ...

, who was the former Chief Secretary to the

Government of West Bengal The Government of West Bengal also known as the West Bengal Government, is the subnational government of the Indian state of West Bengal , created by the National Constitution as the state's legislative, executive and judicial authority. The ...

and now serving as the Chief Advisor to the Chief Minister of West Bengal.

References

Vice Chancellors of the University of Calcutta Living people University of Calcutta alumni University of Calcutta faculty Presidency University, Kolkata alumni West Bengal academics Year of birth missing (living people) Scholars from West Bengal {{India-academic-bio-stub