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Lajwanti Chatani

Trustee & Convener

Lajwanti Chatani is Professor in Political Theory and Head of the Department of Political Science at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. She is the Director of the Institute of Policy Research and International Studies at the Maharaja Sayajirao University and Convener of the Forum on Contemporary Theory. She is joint editor of the Journal of Contemporary Thought and Consulting Editor for the Journal of Public Affairs and Change. She has edited a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Thought on “Revisiting the Political”, and has several publications to her credit. She is also Member of the Advisory Board of the Women’s Studies Research Center of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda as well as a Trustee of the Sindhu Vidya Mandal, Vadodara. She is a Core Faculty at the M S Merian International Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, New Delhi. She has also contributed to curriculum development and course materials pertaining to political theory at the Indira Gandhi National Open University and the National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi.