Ananya Mukherjee-Reed is Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies and a Professor of Political Science 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.Dean Mukherjee-Reed obtained her Ph.D. in Economics and Public Policy from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and her MA and BA in Economics from Kolkata, India. She was recently named as one the five brilliant women from academia by Canadian Immigrant magazine in their Third Annual Tribute to 'Immigrant Women of Inspiration'.