About: Mehroo Bengalee

Mehroo Dhunjisha Bengalee (29 December 1931 – 21 May 2014) was an Indian Parsi academic. She served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Mumbai from 1986 to 1992, the first woman to hold this post. Bengalee earned a master’s in education, followed by a PhD in economics and psychology from the University of Mumbai, in 1965. She started her career at St Xavier's Institute of Education and later became a professor at the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai She served as Head of the Department of Education at the University of Mumbai from 1984 to 1986. Bengalee died on 21 May 2014, at the age of 82.