Malabika Sarkar is the Vice Chancellor of Ashoka University. She is Professor of English at Ashoka University. She joined Ashoka University as Principal Academic Advisor in 2015 and took on the additional role of Ashoka’s first Dean of Faculty and Research in 2016. In these two concurrent roles, she has been responsible for faculty recruitment across the university and the creation of Ashoka’s faculty governance policies, including the tenure process. She initiated the Natural Sciences Programme at Ashoka and led a distinguished group of science advisors in envisioning this programme, overseeing the recruitment of the first faculty in Physics and Biology and supervising the building of infrastructural facilities. Most recently, she initiated the Chemistry Programme. Professor Sarkar has also instituted Ashoka’s Ph.D. Programme, created a Research Office, and took the first steps towards creating a university-wide research database. Before coming to Ashoka, she was the First Vice-Chancellor of Presidency University in Kolkata (from 2011-2014), where she was responsible for moulding the iconic Presidency College into a University. Prior to that, at Jadavpur University, she was Professor and Head of Department of English, a member of the University Council at a critical point in its history, and a crucial part of many academic committees of the university.