Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee
Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee is an Indian academic and the current vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, India.Biography
Banerjee completed her Bachelor's studies from Presidency College, Kolkata, 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.
She and her husband were sent into quarantine when she was contact-traced to the first reported case of COVID-19 in West Bengal.
