Dr Anuradha Chatterjee is an Indian born Australian feminist academic practitioner in architecture and design based in Australia and India. She a degree in architecture from TVB School of Habitat Studies, India, and a Masters and PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Dr Chatterjee is Pro Vice Chancellor, RV University and Dean, School of Design and Innovation. She has also held prominent academic leadership roles as Dean, Faculty of Design, Manipal University Jaipur; Dean Academics, Avani Institute of Design; and Head, Research and Innovation, Pearl Academy where she was responsible for institution building, establishing collaborative cultures of academic excellence, enhancing internationalisation initiatives and research outputs. She continues to contribute to academic excellence as Founding Chairperson, Academic Advisory Board, Cindrebay School of Design; and past Member, Academic Council KRVIA (2021-2023); and Board of Review, CEPT (2019-2022).

Dr Chatterjee has over 23 years of experience in research, teaching and administration gained through various academic positions in Australia (University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney, University of Tasmania, University of South Australia), China (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), and India (Manipal University Jaipur, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Pearl Academy and Sushant School of Architecture), where she developed critical and research-based pedagogies in studio and history and theory subjects.

Dr Chatterjee has also worked in professional practice in Australia, as Senior Researcher at PTW Architects; Senior Architectural Researcher and Heritage Advisor at Cracknell and Lonergan Architects; and Guest Curator, Customs House Sydney. She is the author of three books Surface and Deep Histories: Critiques, and Practices in Art, Architecture, and Design (Cambridge Scholars Publishing); Built, Unbuilt, and Imagined Sydney (Copal Publishing); John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture (Routledge); and the Area Editor (Asia) for fourth publication, The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2015 edited by Karen Burns and Lori Brown (forthcoming 2025). Her fifth book is an edited collection titled Architectures of Ageing in Place (forthcoming Routledge, 2025).