Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee

Not to be confused with Sonali Chakraborty.

Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee
Vice Chancellor of West Bengal State University
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 December 2024
Preceded by	Dr. Souren Bandhopadhyay
Vice Chancellor of University of Calcutta
In office 15 July 2017 – 15 July 2022
Preceded by	Ashutosh Ghosh
Succeeded by	Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay[1]
Personal details
Nationality	Indian
Spouse	Alapan Bandyopadhyay
Occupation	Academic

Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee is an Indian academic who is the Vice Chancellor of West Bengal State University. She also served as the Vice Chancellor of University of Calcutta.[2]

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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]

References

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