Chandana Sanyal is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management and Development at Middlesex University and a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and Higher Education Academy.

She is the EMCC Global Individual Accreditation Lead. Chandana is an EMCC Global EIA Master Practitioner Coach and Mentor and EMCC Global ITCA Senior Practitioner Team Coach.

Chandana completed her Coach-Mentor Supervision training with the Tavistock Institute in Human Relations in 2022. She teaches on several postgraduate programmes and her specialist teaching areas include individual, team and organisational learning, professional practice, organisational behaviour, coaching, mentoring, action learning and leadership development.

Her recent consultancy and research projects with organisations include longitudinal research on entrepreneurship mentoring with Youth Business International (YBI), impact evaluation of coaching with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Academy Mentoring Programme evaluation. Chandana has published several book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of management education and professional development.