Dr Nirmalya Mukherjee has been serving as the Director of Manbhum Ananda Ashram Nityananda Trust (MANT) since 2003. He is a trained and professional social worker (MSW from Vidyasagar University, West Bengal- 1997-1999) and completed another master’s degree in Public Health from Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, during 2009-2010. Nirmalya pursued his PhD with a focus on Health Communication at Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu, India, in 2019. He is an alumnus of prestigious institutions/universities like Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA and the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has more than 22 years of experience in conceiving, designing, managing, & evaluating health and development projects in various capacities.