Loreto College, Kolkata

One of the first Loreto College students to do a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from an Indian Institute of Management i.e. IIM Calcutta. She held top managerial positions at Duncan s Industries, TIL Ltd, Balmer Lawrie as well as several other companies, and was awarded a British Commonwealth Chevening Scholarship. Since 2003 she has been with IBS (the ICFAI Business School), Kolkata, where she is currently Deputy Director- Corporate Relations and Placement Coordinator. She is a Member of the Academic Council- ICFAI University, Jharkhand and on the Board of Management, ICFAI University, Nagaland.

Former Chair, Dept. Of Geography at George Washington University, where she is currently Professor of Geography and International Affairs as well as Associate Provost for Special Programs and the Mount Vernon Academic Experience. She received the American Society of Women Geographers Award in 1994 and in 2006 she won the U.S. Professor of the Year award from the District of Columbia. In 2013-14, she was a Fulbright Scholar at NUS, Singapore.

News-presenter for AIR and Doordarshan for 31 years, and winner of the best anchor person and newsreader award several times. She represented Taj Palace Inter-continental at various global meets, and was the lead organizer in a large SAARC summit at Bangalore in 1987. She has worked with the Jaipur Literary Festival and the Delhi International Arts Festival. Consultant with CII for 3 years, she was responsible for coordination with state dignitaries visiting India including Princess Anne. She won the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award for Outstanding Women in 1989. Currently, she is Head, Major Donors at WWF-India.

Member in the Lok Adalat of the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Maharashtra since 2005. She has done pioneering work in improving the life of Mumbai citizens. Instrumental in starting the Municipality s integrated Relay Transport System of segregated waste collection, Indrani was appointed on the committee to monitor the beautification and improvement of the famous Girgaum Chowpatty beach in 2001. In 2002 the Model School Bus System was conceptualized and implemented by her in partnership with the Mumbai Traffic Police and the Cathedral and John Connon School; this was accepted as a model on which the State of Maharashtra based its Policy of Transportation of School Children. Indrani has been associated with the Disaster Management cell of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai since 2002.

She was ranked No.1 in India for a record 8 times and was captain of the Indian table tennis team from 1979 to 1984. Winner of the Arjuna Award 1981, the Punjabi Bhushan award, the Kalpana Chawla Excellence Award and the Best Sportsperson of the Year Award. Winner of the National title in Calcutta in 1985. Represented India in six Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, Six World Table Tennis Championships, eventually holding the runner-up position in the Commonwealth in 1982 and remained as a National level sports coach. Chairperson of the Committee constituted by the Ministry of Sports to select the awardees of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2008 and Dhyanchand Award 2009. She currently works as the Chief Manager of the Union Bank of India, New Delhi.

With over twenty years of experience of working in publishing, she and a partner set up India s first bookstore-cafe in Bangalore. Founded Books@Jacaranda, a literary agency in 1997. Under her leadership Jacaranda has continued to grow its diverse and exciting list of authors. Jayapriya has spoken at literary festivals in Istanbul, India, Manila and Singapore and further afield in London and Frankfurt. She was appointed the Festival Director of the Times of India Literary Festival 2017 and 2018.

Professor and Chair of the Department of Counseling and Student Personnel at Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota. She has also taught at universities in Australia and Hong Kong.

The first woman teacher at Presidency College (1959); she remained an integral part of the English Department there till her retirement in 1996.

Theatre and film actress. She has been a part of a number of Telegu, Hindi, Tamil, Malyalam and Kannada films. She was awarded The Golden Nandi Award For Best Actress in the Telegu film Anand and The ANR Award For Best Actress in the film Godavari. She played a major role in her first Bengali film Aparajita Tumi, directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury.

Dr Krishna Sen, former Professor and Head of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, and a founder-member of the University s Women s Studies Research Centre, was awarded a National Merit Scholarship, a Commonwealth Educational Fellowship to the University of Kent, and a Fulbright-NEH fellowship to UCLA. She was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the School of English, University of Leeds in 2008; Visiting Professor at the University of Vermont in 2002; Visiting Fellow at the University of Korea at Seoul in 2005 and at the Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo, in 2008; as well as Nippon Fellow at the Salzburg Seminar in 2002. She has been invited to lecture or deliver Keynote Addresses at several British universities including SOAS, and at Stanford and Berkeley, and has participated in conferences in many countries. She has several national and international publications to her credit and is on the International Board of Consulting Editors for Feminist Studies in English Literature and Journal of Transnational American Studies.