Janak Pandey is Currently Vice-Chancellor of the Central University of Bihar. Earlier, he was Head, UGC Centre of Excellence for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, & Co-ordinator, Centre for Advanced Study in Psychology, Allahabad University. He has also been a National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research; Senior Commonwealth Fellow, University of Manitoba; Fulbright Doctoral Fellow at Kansas State University and Scholar-in-Residence / Visiting Professor, Wake Forest University, and Honorary Fellow, International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP). He is a past President of IACCP, NAOP (India) and Currently member of the Board of IAAP. He Specializes in Social Psychology and Cross-cultural Psychology. He has published over 80 scientific papers in journals like: Journal of Personality, Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, Environment and Behaviour, Environmental Psychology, International Journal of Psychology; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology; International Review of Applied Psychology, etc. He has also edited two rounds of ICSSR review of psychological research in India. The first round was published in 1988 in three volumes as Psychology In India: State of the art (New Delhi: Sage Publisher). The second round also resulted in three volumes (2001, 2002, 2004) as: Psychology in India state of the art: Revisited (New Delhi: Sage). As a member of IUPsyS Executive Council he chairs a work group on Education of Psychologists.