Mehroo Bengalee

Mehroo Dhunjisha Bengalee 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 was also a former trustee of the Parsi Punchayet">Parsis">Parsi Punchayet and a founding member of the National Commission for Minorities.
Bengalee died on 21 May 2014, at the age of 82.