Dr. Chandan Roy is Associate Professor and Head, Department of Economics, Kaliyaganj College, Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal. After completion of M.Sc. in Economics from Calcutta University in 1994, he joined a weekly business Tabloid Business Economics as Researcher and Business Reporter and after that worked in a Bengali daily Bartaman..He also worked as a freelancer in different newsletters of Indian Express Groups and published many articles on Business and Commerce. Afterwards, he acquired M.Phil degree in Economics from Jadavpur University under Professor Rajat Acharyya and his M.Phil Dissertation was on “A Study on the Prospects of Indian Leather Exports”. He served Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Haldia Government College and Netaji Nagar Day College before joining Kaliyaganj College in 2001. In May 2001, he joined Kaliyaganj College as Lecturer in Economics and became Head of the Department of Economics in 2004. He remained NAAC Coordinator for successive cycles of NAAC accreditation and shouldered several types of administrative responsibility in his college, like Bursar, AISHE Nodal Officer, NIRF Nodal Officer, Coordinator of Vocational Education under West Bengal State Council of Technical and Vocational Education and Skill Development. He did his Ph.D. from University of North Bengal in 2016. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is ‘Artisanal Silk Industry of West Bengal: A Study on its History, Performance and Current Problems’.

Dr. C. Roy actively participated in constructing Uttar Dinajpur District Human Development Report-2010 under the aegis of Planning Commission, Government of India and outlined the draft of Livelihood Chapter in that project and currently engaged in building up Dakhshin Dinajpur District Human Development Report. Dr. Roy published 35 papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals including few edited volumes. He edited several books ,e.g.,’ Right to Education: An Accelerator of Social Transformation and Economic Development’(2013), ‘International Trade & Inclusive Development’(2017) and a special issue of ‘Indian Journal of Social and Natural Sciences’(2015). He published two books on his research entitled ‘A Study on Bengal Silk Industry: Glorious Past to Deplorable Present’(2017) and ‘Saga of Bengal Silk and Handloom Industry’(2018). He worked as a ‘Regional Editor, North Bengal for a reputed Bengali Journal ‘Artha Bishleshan’. His present work of interest is on Women Empowerment, Regional Issues of Development and Sericulture Sector .

Beside academic sphere he has keen interest in poems and films. Many of his poems have been published in different magazines. Very recently his written tributary over his own poet teacher Pabitra Mukhopadhyay has drawn attentions of many. He writes blogs in social network sites and exchanges ideas with many eminent personalities in digital platforms.