Alumni from different educational institutions of Kolkata (Presidency, Jadavpur, Indian Statistical Institute, St. Xavier's College and various schools) have partnered with Rotary Belur and Rotary Singapore to support this cause at this hour of crisis. These Alumni are now spread across the globe but their heart is with their motherland at this unprecedented time.
Some of the alumni who initiated the effort are:
Arpita Chatterjee: Assistant professor (senior lecturer in Australia) of economics at University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). Completed B. Sc. from Presidency College (Calcutta) in 2003, M.S. in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute (Calcutta) in 2005, and PhD in economics from Princeton University in 2010.
Monalisa Sen: Project Cost Controller/Financial Analyst at KBC Bank (Brussels, Belgium) and a mother of two children. Completed B. Sc. from Presidency College (Calcutta) in 2003, M.S. in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute (Calcutta) in 2005, and PhD in Econometrics at UIUC in 2012.
Arkadeep Kumar: R&D Engineer in Applied Materials, former Postdoctoral Fellow of University of California-Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Completed my B.E. Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University Kolkata in 2008, M.S. in Mechanical engineering in 2014 and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2018, both from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Jyotishka Datta: Assistant Professor of Statistics at University of Arkansas Fayetteville. Completed BStat/MStat from ISI Kolkata, PhD from Purdue (09-14) & Postdoc from Duke (14-16).
Sudipto Banerjee: Vice President at T. Rowe Price (USA). Completed B. Sc. from Presidency College (Calcutta) in 2003, M.S. in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute (Calcutta) in 2005, and PhD in Economics from Ohio State University in 2011.
Dilip K. Som: President, Caption Depot, Maryland, USA. Ph. D. in Physics from City University of New York in 1982.
Anisha Ghosh: Associate Professor of Finance, McGill University (Montreal, Canada). Completed BSc in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata in 2003, MRes in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2005, and PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2009.