Professor Mukherjee Reed joined UBC Okanagan in November 2018 as Provost and Vice-President Academic. Professor Mukherjee Reed is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science at UBC Okanagan. She obtained her doctoral degree in Political Economy & Public Policy from the University of Southern California, USA and her BA and MA degrees in Economics from Jadavpur University, India.
Professor Mukherjee Reed’s scholarly work, especially since 2008, has sought to contribute to theories of alternative development, with a focus on the theme of justice. She has contributed to discourses in the fields of Development, Public Policy, Transitional Justice, Corporate Governance and Gender Studies. Her work on development has appeared in books (single-authored and co-edited), journals, research reports and in popular media and in multiple languages.
In 2003, Professor Mukherjee Reed became the Founding-Director of the International Secretariat for Human Development (ISHD), at York University. Before coming to UBC in November 2018, Professor Mukherjee Reed spent more than two decades at Canada’s third-largest university, York University in Toronto, where she undertook many leadership roles. Most recently she was Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University. This is the largest liberal arts Faculty in Canada with a vibrant community of 23,000 students, including 3,000 international students from 123 countries. She also served as Associate Vice-President Research in 2014 and before that as the Chair of the Department of Political Science (2011-14).