Prof. Subrata Chaudhuri Subrata Chaudhuri is presently engaged as a Chair Professor in the Department of Mining Engineering, Indian School of Mines. Before joining academia, he served Indian coal sector for nearly four decades in production, planning and in Ministry of Coal (Govt. of India), and retired as CMD of CMPDI Ltd, a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd. Currently, he is also a non-official part time Director in the Board of SAIL. During the span of his service, he had been intimately associated for about three decades with planning of a large number of coal mining projects of CIL, visited coal mines and related establishments of erstwhile USSR, USA, Canada, UK, China etc. and participated in bilateral discussions on coal mining with different countries as a member of Indian team. Between 2005 and 2007, he served as Chairman of several important technical committees constituted by Ministry of Coal and CIL and as Co-Chair of multi-nation Coal Sub-Committee of ‘Methane to Market Partnership’ program under the auspices of USEPA. Shri Chaudhuri has authored several technical papers and formulated ‘Vision Coal 2025’ document in 2005 for Ministry of Coal. A graduated in Mining Engineering from University of Calcutta and post-graduate in Opencast Mining from Indian School of Mines, Shri Chaudhuri holds the professional ‘First Class (Coal) Mine Managers’ Certificate of Competency’ issued by Ministry of Labour and Employment (India) for managing coal mines. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and a recognized qualified planner (RQP) in the panel of Ministry of Coal, Government of India. The areas covered by his expertise include, exploration of coal deposits, master planning of coalfields, formulation techno-economic feasibility report and environmental management plan for coal deposits, mine closure planning, due diligence study of coal mining projects for investment decision and mine disaster investigation.