MAHALAYA CHATTERJEE

Dr. Mahalaya Chatterjee is Professor of Urban and Regional Economics in Department of Economics, Calcutta University. She was also the Director of Centre for Urban Economic Studies,a research centre specializing on urban studies in the same university till 2017. An alumnus of St.Xavier’s College and Department of Economics, Calcutta University, she has been engaged in research and teaching of economics for the last three decades. She coordinated a course on urban management and planning for the last five years. She has two books (on urban land economics and environmental management respectively) and published an edited volume on socio-economic perspectives of urban development in Howrah, the twin city of Kolkata. Apart from that, she has published numerous articles in national and international journals and edited volumes. She has also participated in seminars, conferences and workshops in India and abroad. She has been acting as reviewer in a number of journals and in the board of editors of few well-known journals like Urban India. She is also is in the advisory board of Globsyn Management Journal. Apart from teaching and research, she is also carrying on different administrative duties like heading the Department (2012-14) and chairing the Undergraduate Board of Studies in Economics in Calcutta University till 2017.She is also an academic member of Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata(member of Research Advisory Committee since 2023) and Athens Institute of Education and Research, Greece. She is a governing body member of South Asian Institute for Advanced Research and Development (SAIARD). She is a visiting professor of Impact Policy Research Institute, New Delhi. She is also an honorary fellow of BK School of Research, Shahzadpur, Bangladesh. She was associated as a project specialist (urban) in Indian Women Entrepreneurship Programme under the 21st Century Knowledge Initiative – a collaborative research project of Calcutta University with Claflin University, South Carolina, USA.