Amitabh Mattoo
Amitabh Mattoo (born 26 June 1962,
Srinagar) is one of India's leading thinkers and writers on
Modern and
Contemporary History,
Political science,
International relations. He was awarded
Padma Shri by the
Government of India in 2009. He is Dean of the School of International Studies, Chair & professor at
Jawaharlal Nehru University and honorary professor of international relations at the
University of Melbourne. Until 19 June 2018, he served as Advisor to the
Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, with the status of a
Cabinet Minister. Mattoo is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the
German Institute for Global and Area Studies and was recently elected unanimously as its Deputy Chair. He was the founding CEO of the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne and served as chairman of the governing board of
Miranda House,
University of Delhi, the highest-ranked women's college in India, and served as Chair of Kirori Mal College earlier He has also been a member of the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing. In 2002, he was the youngest person to be appointed as vice chancellor of a public university in independent India. Mattoo's advice on policy matters has been sought across political parties and across governments, including by Prime Ministers
Atal Behari Vajpayee and Dr
Manmohan Singh. Following the abrogation of
Article 370 of the Constitution of India, he has offered a political roadmap for securing the future of
Jammu and Kashmir. He has been a persistent advocate of
multiculturalism and of reconciliation between
Kashmiri Pandits and
Kashmiri Muslims.
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