Kalyan Shankar Mandal

Prof. Kalyan Sankar Mandal is Professor of Sociology, Public Policy and Management Group, at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He earned a PhD in Sociology from the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai. In a career spanning over 25 years, he has taught at various institutions, including IIM Calcutta and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He was Visiting Indian Council of Cultural Relations Chair Professor at the Sociology Department, Lund University, Lund, Sweden during the 2013-14 academic year. Prof. Mandal’s area of expertise is in Sociology of Development, Rural Sociology, Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy.