Dr. Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata and has been the Vice Chancellor of the same university since July 2012. He is currently the President of Institute of Development Studies (IDSK), and Honorary Director of Calcutta Research Group (CRG). His areas of research interest include: global politics, South Asian politics, and refugees, migration, democracy and human rights in the Global South.