Sanjeev Chatterjee is a professor, documentary filmmaker and a mentor to youth in creative fields. He teaches at the Department of Cinematic Arts and Journalism, University of Miami.

Sanjeev is the recipient of two Fulbright-Nehru Scholarships (2011 and 2018) and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar. His films have received top international awards.

Sanjeev has served as a consulting filmmaker to the World Bank, Stockholm International Water Institute, United Nations Development Program and United Nations Water. His films have been shown on Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel, Doordarshan, ARTE (France and Germany), CCTV (China) among numerous others.