Dr. Anirban Chakraborty has several years of experience as an Academic and Research Administrator in India. Currently, he is the Head of the Research Planning and Management Group at TCG CREST (Kolkata, India), a translational research institute in cross-disciplinary areas. Previously he was the Assistant Vice-President (Research & Academic Development) at Ashoka University, where he was deeply involved in concretizing the university’s academic and research administration (2017- 23). Anirban was the Assistant Registrar and then officiated as the Deputy Registrar at Presidency University (Kolkata, India), where he worked closely with the leadership team and participated in the task of transforming a great College of more than two hundred years old into a twenty-first-century Research University (2012-17). Anirban completed his BSc. (Hons) in Physics, MSc and PhD in Nanoscience from University of Calcutta. Further, he is interested in research in Higher Education Management (HEM) and Policy issues, particularly in the area of internationalisation. He is a DBA (HEM) scholar at ICHEM, University of Bath (UK), and regularly publishes scholarly articles and participates in conferences and panel discussions in the field of higher education.