Gopa Bhardwaj is Professor of Psychology at the University of Delhi. She received an M.A. (as gold medalist) from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1969, an M.Sc. in applied psychology from Aston University, UK in 1974, a Ph.D. in industrial psychology from BHU (1973). Professor Bhardwaj has also been a Commonwealth Fellow. She has held faculty appointments at BHU and the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, and guest faculty appointments at the School of Social Work, University of Delhi; Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; and Police Training Academy, Delhi, among others. She has also been dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, and Director, Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education (ASC–UGC). Professor Bhardwaj has been a consultant to the Centre for Social Science Research on Leprosy, Wardha, under WHO; GAIL (Gas Authority of India Limited), DANIDA (Danish International Development Agency), DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization), etc. She is on the editorial boards of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology and other Indian journals, and is a member of the Indian Science Congress Association, Bangladesh Psychological Association, and the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology Association. Besides this, she has been the principal investigator of several projects of the DRDO, and of an ICSSR project. Professor Bhardwaj has contributed numerous articles to reputed journals and chapters to edited volumes.