Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty
Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty (in Bangla কল্যাণ কুমার চক্রবর্তী, Hindi कल्याण कुमार चक्रवर्ती) (born 2 September 1947) is an Indian historian, art historian, writer, action anthropologist, academician and administrator, known for his intercultural and cross-disciplinary research and activism. A retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of the 1970 batch (retired 2007), he was appointed Chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi, India’s federal fine arts academy, in 2013. He has authored books on archaeology, rock art, art history, tribal issues, museology, public policy, philosophy of religion and art. Early life 
Chakravarty was born to an Indian Bengali Hindus family in West Bengal in 1947. His father was Hiralal Chakravarti, a historian, academician and civil servant. The family originally hailed from Bikrampur in Dhaka district, now in Bangladesh, and his father’s home was in  Sunamganj District in Sylhet, now in Bangladesh. However, the family had lived in India, mostly Kolkata (then Calcutta) since the times of Presidencies and Provinces of British India. Chakravarty lived in various towns of West Bengal and Kolkata during his childhood and in various cities and towns of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh during his professional life, including Bhopal and Raipur. He has also lived in Boston, MA. He currently lives in New Delhi. Education 
Chakravarty had a liberal art education in Ballygunge Government High School, Calcutta. He Graduated with Honours in History from Presidency University, Kolkata in 1966 and obtained his Post Graduate degree in Modern History from University of Calcutta in 1968. He joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1970. While in service, he went on to acquire a Graduate degree (M.P.A.) in Public Administration from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1985) & an A.M. (1987), and a Ph.D. in Fine Arts (1992) from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Career 
The major milestones in his career are:
 Indian Administrative Service, 1970 to 2007. Member of Governing Body, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Andhra Pradesh. Chancellor, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, 2009 to 2014. Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 2013 to 2015. Member Secretary and Executive Trustee, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, 2004 to 2009. Director General, National Museum, New Delhi,  2004 to 2006. Vice-chancellor, National Museum Institute, New Delhi, 2004 to 2006. 