Professor Paula Banerjee is the IDRC Research Chair on Gender and Forced Displacement at the Asian Institute of Technology\u2019s Gender and Development Studies (GDS) Program in the School of Environment, Resource, and Development.<\/p>\n
Professor Banerjee, who has a long research experience and publication record on forced migration and gender in both South And Southeast Asia, will start her role officially as the new IDRC Chair in April 2023. She will also be the founding Director of the new Center on Gender and Forced Displacement hosted by GDS, AIT.<\/p>\n
Professor Banerjee obtained a Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Cincinnati, USA, where she was the recipient of the Advanced Taft fellowship. She is a Professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Calcutta. She was the Vice Chancellor at Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata. She handled a budget of about 4 million USD that she helped fundraise, began seven new postgraduate departments, and digitalized probably the richest manuscript collection in the country. She was also the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Calcutta and was responsible for approximately 7000 graduate students. She supervised 32 departments and ten research centers. She also managed over 100 colleges affiliated with Calcutta University and decided on the accreditation of their Master of Arts programs. Furthermore, Prof. Banerjee also got 42 government-accredited new posts. From a student base of only 92, when she took charge of the university, she increased it to over 600 in two years.<\/p>\n
La professeure Paula Banerjee est titulaire de la chaire de recherche du CRDI sur le genre et les d\u00e9placements forc\u00e9s au sein du programme d’\u00e9tudes sur le genre et le d\u00e9veloppement (GDS) de l’Asian Institute of Technology, qui fait partie de la School of Environment, Resource, and Development.<\/p>\n
La professeure Banerjee, qui poss\u00e8de une longue exp\u00e9rience de la recherche et des publications sur les migrations forc\u00e9es et le genre en Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est, entrera officiellement en fonction \u00e0 titre de titulaire de la nouvelle chaire du CRDI en avril 2023. Elle sera \u00e9galement la directrice fondatrice du nouveau Centre sur le genre et les d\u00e9placements forc\u00e9s h\u00e9berg\u00e9 par GDS, AIT.<\/p>\n
Le professeur Banerjee a obtenu un doctorat en 1993 \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de Cincinnati, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, o\u00f9 elle a re\u00e7u la bourse Advanced Taft. Elle est professeur au d\u00e9partement des \u00e9tudes sur l’Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est \u00e0 l’universit\u00e9 de Calcutta. Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 vice-chanceli\u00e8re du Sanskrit College and University de Kolkata. Elle a g\u00e9r\u00e9 un budget d’environ 4 millions USD qu’elle a contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 collecter, a cr\u00e9\u00e9 sept nouveaux d\u00e9partements de troisi\u00e8me cycle et a num\u00e9ris\u00e9 la collection de manuscrits probablement la plus riche du pays. Elle a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 doyenne de la facult\u00e9 des arts de l’universit\u00e9 de Calcutta et \u00e9tait responsable d’environ 7000 \u00e9tudiants dipl\u00f4m\u00e9s. Elle supervisait 32 d\u00e9partements et dix centres de recherche. Elle a \u00e9galement g\u00e9r\u00e9 plus de 100 coll\u00e8ges affili\u00e9s \u00e0 l’universit\u00e9 de Calcutta et a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de l’accr\u00e9ditation de leurs programmes de ma\u00eetrise en arts. En outre, le professeur Banerjee a \u00e9galement obtenu 42 nouveaux postes accr\u00e9dit\u00e9s par le gouvernement. D’une base d’\u00e9tudiants de seulement 92, lorsqu’elle a pris la direction de l’universit\u00e9, elle l’a port\u00e9e \u00e0 plus de 600 en deux ans.<\/p>\n