Patralika Bhattacharjya carries a combined 28 years of teaching, research, administrative and industrial experience with her. She is an alumnus of CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University (M. A) Economics and Jadavpur University Kolkata, M. Phil (Economics).
She carries industry experience with Liz Claiborne, New Jersey, USA and Price Waterhouse Coopers, Kolkata.
She has also been selected as Empaneled Resource Person Eastern Region with SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India), having conducted 23 Financial Planning Workshops for specific target groups across the population.
Ms. Bhattacharjya has been founding faculty in Economics in Amity School of Economics with Amity University, Kolkata carrying a total of 6.5 years’ experience and has been a Founder Member of the Entrepreneurship Cell at AUK.
She has also held Visiting Faculty roles with IBS, ICFAI, Techno India Group and Annex College of Management Studies. MS Bhattacharjya is currently pursuing her PhD from SNU, Kolkata. She has a keen interest in Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Digital Financial inclusion and Financial Gender Divide and has multiple publications to her credit.
She is a Member of SNU’s Institutional Innovation Council and has played a key organizing role in conducting IIC Regional Meet on 12th January 2024 conducted by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell, Government of India and AICTE
She has played a supporting role in establishing the University’s Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Innovation and Incubation namely Udyog which provides all necessary support to young innovators and has three parallel wings Innovation. Entrepreneurship and IPR. She has enabled regular seminars and workshops to facilitate an ecosystem favorable for innovators and budding entrepreneurs at SNU.
She has co- found an entrepreneurial venture named Kheti@Home at SNU which is interdisciplinary in nature and is work in progress.
She has been selected as Empowering Women Globally (EWG) Scholar 2024 from S.N.U under an initiative managed by the Turner School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Bradley University, U.S.A and supported by the U.S. Department of State which involves Empowering Women through Education and Entrepreneurship.
This gives her the opportunity to participate in the capacity-building “train-the-trainer” model with a semester at Bradley University , designed to expand entrepreneurship opportunities for Indian women while strengthening entrepreneurial skills for Sister Nivedita University (SNU) students.