Dr. Saon Banerjee is the Professor of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal since 2012. His research field includes crop-weather relationships, agroclimatic characterisation and climate change. He was the respondent (Agril. Section) in the IPCC (AR 4) dissemination Workshop for South East Asia and visited fourteen countries for academic purposes. Prof. Banerjee is the recipient of many prestigious awards like, IARI-Gold Medal, Metos Award, INSA Bilateral Exchange Programme Award for visiting University of Edinburgh, CNPq-TWAS Post-Doc award.