She graduated as an engineer from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in 1995. After working in Kolkata for three years, she completed her PhD in management, specializing in Organization Behaviour from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) in 2003. She worked as an organization redesign consultant for CSIR (IGIB) for about a year and joined IIMC in 2004. Her research interests include gender stereotypes, virtual trust and cross-cultural management issues. She has several papers published in the proceedings of national and international conferences to her credit.