Dr Anirban Ganguly is Chairman, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, New Delhi. He is Member of BJP's National Executive Committee. Besides being a political activist, he has worked extensively in the areas of public policy and political research. Dr Ganguly is also a distinguished scholar with expertise in civilisation, history, politics, and culture. He has written at length about these subjects. He was a Member of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE), Member of the Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU), Member of the Governing Board of Auroville Foundation, and Member of the Visva-Bharati Samsad (Court), Santiniketan. He is currently a member of the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library Society, Ministry of Culture, GoI. He has authored, co-authored and edited several books and is the great-great grandson of revolutionary Upendra Nath Banerjee.