Professor Supriya Pattanayak, currently serving as the Vice Chancellor of the Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM) in Odisha, India. Professor Pattanayak, holds a distinguished academic background, she has qualified from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (MA), Mumbai, the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (MPhil), Bengaluru in India, and a PhD from RMIT University in Australia. She has extensive experience in teaching, research, and policy development, with a dedicated focus on gender and development issues, as well as social work pedagogy across diverse settings. Throughout her career, she has actively collaborated with a spectrum of stakeholders, spanning NGOs, multilateral and bilateral agencies, federal and state governments, and universities in both India and Australia. Professor Pattanayak is involved as an Industry Liaison Person at the School of Global Studies, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Additionally, she holds a Research Fellow position at the St Petersburg State University in Russia. Further, she is a Director in several companies: Esse Naturals and Nutrition Private Limited, Global Competency Assessment and Accreditation Guilds Private Limited, to name a few. She is also on the Board of Governors of the Chetana’s Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, India. She has several publications to her credit: Positioning Research: Shifting Paradigms, Interdisciplinarity and Indigeneity(Sage Publications): Social Exclusion and Policies of Inclusion: Issues and Perspectives across the Globe (Springer, 2022) and most recently a chapter entitled, Skill Integration in Higher Education: Curriculum for Sustainability in Higher Education for the Sustainable Development Goals: Bridging the global north and south (Emerald Publishing, 2024).