List of Jawaharlal Nehru University people

This is a list of people associated with the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Excluded are those people whose only connection with JNU is that they were awarded an honorary degree.

Alumni

Arts

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Srijit Mukherji			Bengali film director	[1]
Swara Bhaskar		MA (Sociology)	Bollywood actress	[2]

Heads of State and Government

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Baburam Bhattarai	1986	PhD in Urban Planning	36th Prime Minister of Nepal	[3]
Ali Zeidan			24th Prime Minister of Libya	[4][5]

Others

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Abdul Sattar Murad	1976		Minister of Economy, Afghanistan	[6]
Ajit Seth		M.Phil	30th Cabinet Secretary of India	[7][8]
Amitabh Kant		MA	CEO of NITI Aayog	[9]
Amitabh Rajan		MA (History); PhD (Sociology)	Home Secretary of Maharashtra, Chairman of Reserve Bank of India Services Board	[10]
Arvind Gupta		PhD (School of International Studies)	Deputy National Security Advisor of India	[11]
Ashok Tanwar			Former President of Indian Youth Congress
Lê Lương Minh			13th Secretary General of ASEAN	[12]
Jyotindra Dixit		PhD (School of International Studies)[13]	2nd National Security Adviser	[13]
Nirmala Sitharaman	1984	MA (Economics); M.Phil	Former Defense Minister of India Finance Minister, India	[14]
Palagummi Sainath			Renowned journalist, Ramon Magsaysay Laureate
Ranjit Nayak		MA (Sociology)	World Bank's Chief for Kosovo Chief Adviser of Macedonia on International & EU affairs
Shehla Rashid		MA (Sociology)	student activist	[15]
Sitaram Yechury			General Secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist)	[16]
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar		MA (Political Science); M.Phil & PhD in International Relations	IFS Officer, 30th Foreign Secretary of India Minister of External Affairs	[17][18]
Syed Ibrahim		MA	24th Director of Intelligence Bureau
Venu Rajamony		MA in International Relations	Former Press Secretary to President of India	[19][20]

Humanities and Social Sciences

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Abhijit Banerjee	1983	MA in Economics	Nobel laureate and Ford Foundation Professor at MIT	[21][22][23]
David Vumlallian Zou		MA; M.Phil	historian
Muzaffar Alam	1977		George V. Bobrinsky Professor of History at University of Chicago	[24]
Sanjoy Bhattacharya		MA	historian	[25]

Military and police

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
R. Hari Kumar			Chief of Personnel of the Indian Navy	[26]
Anjana Sinha		Master of Arts	Director of National Industrial Security Academy

Science and Technology

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Alok Bhattacharya	1976	PhD	Parasitologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[27]
Apurva Sarin			Cell biologist, N-Bios laureate	[28]
Arun Kumar Shukla			structural biologist, N-Bios laureate	[29]
Gaiti Hasan	1980	MPhil	microbiologist	[30]
Srinivasan Ramachandran			bioinformatician, N-Bios laureate	[31]
Suman Kumar Dhar			Molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[32]

Others

• Harun Rashid Khan, Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (2011 to 2016)
• Umesh Upadhyay, President & Director Media at Reliance Industries Limited
• Pankaj Mishra, novelist and essayist.[33]
• Ashok Kumar Sarangi, Chief Vigilance Officer and CGM-in-Charge, Reserve Bank of India
• Jawed Habib, hairdresser and businessman[34][35]

Faculty

Name	Affiliation	Notability	References
Anvita Abbi	Professor of Linguistics		[36][37]
Ayesha Kidwai	Professor of Linguistics	theoretical linguist and Infosys Prize recipient
Balaji Prakash		biochemist, N-Bios laureate	[38]
Birendra Nath Mallick,		Neurobiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[39]
Brahm Shanker Srivastava,		microbiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[40]
Deepak Kumar	Professor of Physics between 1988 and 2016	physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[41]
Franson Manjali	Professor of linguistics.
Joy Pachuau	Professor of Historical studies	historian	[42]
Kapil Kapoor	Professor of Linguistics & English, Chairman Indian Institute of Advanced Study		[43]
Mahendra P. Lama	Professor, JNU	vice chancellor of Sikkim University	[44][45]
Makarand Paranjape	Professor of English between 1999 and 2018	author, poet, and director of Indian Institute of Advanced Study	[46][47]
Muchkund Dubey	Former Professor of International Relations	17th Foreign Secretary of India
Nivedita Menon	Professor of Political thought		[48]
Prabhat Patnaik	Former Professor of Economics
Pushpesh Pant	Professor of International relations	food critic and writer	[49]
Raja Mohan			[50]
Robert L. Holmes		philosopher
Sanjay Puri	held various positions since 1987	Statistical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[51]
Syed Iqbal Hasnain		glaciologist, writer, and climate change activist

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