Dr Dhriti Banerjee: First Female Director of ZSI

Dr Dhriti Banerjee has been appointed as the director of the Zoological Survey of India.
She is the first female to lead the organization in over 100 years history of the Zoological Survey of India.
She has been an eminent scientist conducting research in zoogeography, taxonomy, morphology among others. Since 2012, Dhriti has been engaged with ZSI's digital sequence information project.
On the occasion of its centenary celebrations in 2016, Banerjee had co-authored the “The Glorious 100 Women’s Scientific Contribution in ZSI”, which chronicled the contributions of women scientists in the domain of animal-related groups.
Started in July 1916, the ZSI is headquartered in Kolkata with 16 regional centres under the Ministry of Environment and Forests and Climate Change.