Tuli Banerjee

Tuli Banerjee is a lecturer in global studies and languages at MIT and codirector of MIT’s Center for Bilingual and Bicultural Studies. She also serves as senior executive director of Resource Development (RD), where she oversees all of the fundraising activities housed in RD, including principal gifts, major and leadership gifts, planned gifts, and foundation and corporate gifts. She works collaboratively with MIT alumni, friends, and supporters across the globe to identify, help plan, and find support for the Institute’s priority initiatives. In this role, she also works closely with the MIT president, senior officers, and faculty to identify and engage key partners and presidential allies that align with MIT’s mission.

Banerjee’s prior experience at MIT includes the faculty directorship of the MIT-India Program, when she worked closely with academic institutions, government, industry, and private philanthropists in India to encourage and implement collaborative research between the United States and India.

Before coming to MIT in 2000, she taught French at Tufts University. Banerjee has published in many academic journals, lectured at several academic conferences, and codirected a documentary film, The Name of the Disease (2006), about health care in India, with Professor Abhijit Banerjee, codirector of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT.

She earned an MA in English from Jadavpur University, India (1986), an MA in French literature from Brandeis University (1988), and an MPhil and PhD in French literature from Columbia University (1994).