Prof. Mita Banerjee, former and first Vice Chancellor of The West Bengal University of Teachers' Training Education Planning and Administration and former Professor of Department of Education, University of Calcutta has more than 36 years of teaching experience. Eminent Teacher Awardee from the University of Calcutta and Parul Prakashani and also Certificates for Lifetime Achievement awarded from different institutions, recipient of Leading Educationist of India Award, and Bharat Excellence Award, New Delhi, is a student friendly Teacher Educator with extensive research experience. She has about 36 scholars awarded PhD degrees under her supervision. She effectively and efficiently took up the responsibility of teaching and administration simultaneously for many years. She completed her term as first Vice Chancellor satisfactorily and held the position of being the Chief Advisor of a research wing called Centre for Advanced Studies and Research in Education. Prof. Banerjee was the Chairman of two Curriculum Committees set up by the Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal to formulate the uniform curriculum for two year BEd and Four year Integrated Teacher Education programmes for the State of West Bengal. She was a member of a High Powered Committee of National Council for Teacher Education. (NCTE), New Delhi. She has several publications to her credit. She was the Chairperson. Coordinator, Resource Person, Keynote speaker at the University, State, National and International levels and even delivered a Convocation Address. She served as member of various Research Boards and other Committees of various Universities.  Presently she is the Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of School of Education of Adamas University.