Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee
Indian academic, vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta
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Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee is an Indian academic and the current vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, India.
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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.
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.
She is the daughter of Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakravarty, and she is married to Alapan Bandyopadhyay, who is a state transport secretary in West Bengal.