Dr. Tamo Chattopadhay is the Founding Director of the Institute of Education at American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan; where he launched Central Asia’s first US graduate program in education in 2018 and served as the Dean of Social Sciences Division from 2019 to 2021.  He is a Visiting Associate Professor at Bard College in New York, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education.  A Fulbright Group Project awardee, Tamo previously was an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Notre Dame (USA), and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, New York. Tamo consults widely with international development organizations (UNICEF, UNESCO, and World Bank) in policy research and programming in global education across Central Asia, South-East Asia, and Latin America (primarily Brazil) in areas of social organization of schooling, public-private partnerships in education, and policies and practices in teacher professional development. Tamo holds a Doctorate in International Educational Development from Teachers College - Columbia University, an MBA in Finance from Baruch College, City University of New York, and an integrated Bachelor and Master in Theoretical Physics from People’s Friendship University of Russia. Prior to academia, he was a Vice President at the global financial institution J P Morgan, in New York City.  A naturalized American citizen, Tamo is originally from India, and speaks Bengali, Hindi, English, Russian and (some) Brazilian Portuguese.

Articles:

BAXTER, J.; CHATTOPADHAY, T. Promover Una Educación Global Transformadora: lecciones aprendidas de un aula global del Sur. In: Jean-Marie Chenou; Nathalie Chingate-Hernández. (Org.) Perspectivas globales en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de los Andes. 1ed.Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, 2023, v. 3, p. 74-83.

RIZZINI, I. ; CHATTOPADHAY, T. Street Children in Brazil and their right to education. The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities. NORRAG, v. 3, p. 122-124, 2018.

CHATTOPADHAY, TAMO. Bridging the Social Divides: a school-based model from India. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, v. 35, p. 222-238, 2015.

CHATTOPADHAY, TAMO; NOGUEIRA, OLAVO. Public-private Partnership in Education: a promising model from Brazil. Journal of International Development, v. 26, p. 875-886, 2014.

CHATTOPADHAY, TAMO. School as a Site of Student Social Capital: an exploratory study from Brazil. International Journal of Educational Development, v. 34, p. 67-76, 2014.

CHATTOPADHAY, TAMO. Teachers as Social Capital Agents: an exploratory study from Brazil. Development in Practice (Print), v. 23, p. 562-574, 2013.

Book chapters: 

CHATTOPADHAY, T.; JANKUNAITE, R. Positioning Teacher Development for High Performance Through Digital Transformation and Support Systems in Kyrgyzstan. In: Wing On Lee; Phillip Brown; A. Lin Goodwin; Andy Green. (Org.) International Handbook on Education Development in Asia-Pacific. 1ed.Switzerland: Springer, 2022, v. 1, p. 1-1.

BAXTER, J.; CHATTOPADHAY, T. Promover Una Educación Global Transformadora: lecciones aprendidas de un aula global del Sur. In: Jean-Marie Chenou; Nathalie Chingate-Hernández. (Org.) Perspectivas globales en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de los Andes. 1ed.Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, 2023, v. 3, p. 74-83.

BAXTER, J.; CHATTOPADHAY, T. Promover una Educación Global Transformadora: lecciones aprendidas de un aula global del Sur. In: Jean-Marie Chenou; Nathalie Chingate-Hernández. (Org.). Perspectivas Globales en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de los Andes. 1ed. Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, 2023, v. 3, p. 74-83.

CHATTOPADHAY, T.; JANKUNAITE, R. Positioning Teacher Development for High Performance Through Digital Transformation and Support Systems in Kyrgyzstan. In: Wing On Lee; Phillip Brown; A. Lin Goodwin; Andy Green. (Org.). International Handbook on Education Development in Asia-Pacific. 1ed.Switzerland: Springer, 2022, v. 1, p. 1-1.

CHATTOPADHAY, T.; SHARSHEEVA, M. World Classroom: Designs for Global Learning across the AMICAL Network - (Chapter 9. One). In: Jeff Hiroshi Gima; Kara Malenfant. (Org.). Library Partnerships in International Liberal Arts Education: Building Relationships Across Cultural and Institutional Lines. 1ed., 2020, v. 1, p. 80-81.