Director

Dr. Chattopadhyay has worked for 27 years on research and outreach, with a special focus on polar studies, disaster management, climate change and biodiversity.

She is the founder Editor of Geography and You (G'nY), an ISSN and RNI accredited journal published since 2001. She has completed 150 issues of the journal, which is now part of the India Citation Index, and has been involved in various research and outreach programmes.

She has co-authored two books, Climate Change and The White World and Science and Geopolitics of The White World: Arctic-Antarctic-Himalaya, both published by Springer, along with six other books on varied topics.

She is the president of LIGHTS, under which PARI functions, and has undertaken several questionnaire-based study reports as principal investigator.

She has a deep interest in polar studies and policy, and has organised the Science and Geopolitics of Himalaya-Arctic-Antarctic conference since 2011 for policy and advocacy of the three poles. She regularly writes on polar issues in Indian media, with publications such as the Financial Express carrying her articles.

She was honoured with the Business Excellence and Innovative Best Practices Academia Award in 2019 by the New Delhi Institute of Management.