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A policy scientist by training and profession Syamal Kumar Ray (born 1944) has been in post-graduate teaching and research for the post thirty-eight years. He visited almost all parts of the world on research assignments, from Argentina, Brazil to China, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand, from United States, Canada to France, Britain, Brussels and Germany and the result has been the publication of nuerous research papers in renowned Journals apart from three books. Professor Ray was the sole academic from India at the UNESCO conference on ‘ Comparative Research on Poverty’ (CROP) in 1993 in Paris and he attended several international political science and public administration conferences, seminars and workshops. He has been on the executive boards of two International Committees- ‘Business and Politics’ and ‘Law and Judicial Studies’, apart from many others in India. He earned distinction as a teacher and research guide and his students are now in various senior positions in teaching and administration. He completed twelve post-doctoral research projects during the last twenty years or so and his areas of specialization are: comparative politics and comparative administration, European Integration and regional co-operation in trade and business, apart from policy scince that includes both micro and macro level target areas.