Prof. Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan is the founder of the Geography Department at Jadavpur University. She has taught at North Bengal University and The University of Burdwan as full time Faculty and as Guest Faculty at the University of Tripura, WBSU, Calcutta University, Kalyani University. She is an Urban Geographer who combines the strengths of Regional Planning and Human Geography. She has 60 research papers and 3 books to her credit. She has delivered lectures across Universities in India. She has taken up projects under UGC and has been supervising several research fellows. She has guided more than 20 scholars who have obtained their doctoral degree and has also supervised several MPhil scholars. She is on the editorial board of many renowned journals such as Hill Geographer, Regional Science Policy and Practice, RSAI, Indian Journal of Regional Science and at present is the Editor of Geographical Review of India, Kolkata. Prof. Bharat Dahiya is a Glocal Sustainability Leader, Professional Keynote Speaker, Urbanist, Planner, Geographer, Futurist, Educator, Team Leader, and Mentor. He is Director of Research Center for Sustainable Development and Innovation at the School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. He is an Extraordinary Professor at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, and a Distinguished Professor at Urban Youth Academy, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He is also a Founding Board Member of the World Smart Cities Economic Development Commission under the World Business Angels Investment Forum. Prof. Dahiya read for his M.A. in Geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Master of Planning from School of Planning and Architecture, both based in New Delhi, India. He holds a PhD in Urban Governance, Planning and Environment from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Prof. Madhuri Sharma is an Associate Professor at University of Tennessee and specializes in urban planning and management of cities.She had studied the patterns and processes of racial/ethnic residential intermixing/segregation, poverty, income inequality and socio-economic disparity within U.S.A, India and the developing world, Within USA, she has explored the role of contemporary housing market elements on residential choice(s) and inter/intra-urban diversity and segregation/intermixing patterns. She has initiated research on measuring poverty and income divide between the richest and the poorest segments in our society, and its impacts on the health outcomes (physical, emotional, physiological) of people across various racial/ethnic groups and gender. Prof. Dr. Saswati Mookherjee is a retired Prof & Head, Post -graduate Department of Geography in Lady Brabourne College, Government of West Bengal. She has completed her B.A. (Hons) in Geography (1973), from Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta University; M.A. from JNU (1976) and PhD from Calcutta University. (1984), She has worked as UGC/JRF/SRF, Department of Geography, University of Calcutta (1979-1983). Later, she was Posted at Lady Brabourne College in 2007 then became Professor in Geography (WBSES) in 2011 and retired as Professor and Head, Department of Geography, Lady Brabourne College in 2014.Since 2014 she taught as Guest Faculty in Aliah University, West Bengal State University, Calcutta University and Jadavpur University, and still attached with Post Graduate Deparrtment of Geography Lady Brabourne College. She was an Honorary Academic Director of Advanced Research Centre in Human Geography, Lady Brabourne College. Ranita Karmakar is a Senior Research Fellow at Department of Geography, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and currently is working towards her doctoral research. She has completed her Graduation and Masters in Geography from Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta University with the specialization of population geography. Her previous work was published as book chapter in an edited volume entitled “Water Supply for the Urban Poor in Indian Cities Issues and Challenges Edited by Dr.Saleha Jamal and Dr. Abha Lakshmi Singh by B.R.Publishing Corporation.
