Jamia Millia Islamia is a public and research university located in Delhi,India. Originally established at Aligarh,United Provinces during the British Raj in 1920,it moved to its current location in Okhla in 1935. It was given the deemed status by the University Grants Commission in 1962. Jamia Millia Islamia became a central university by an act of the Indian parliament which was passed on 26 December 1988.
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was an Indian nationalist and political leader,and former president of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League during the Indian Independence Movement. He was one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia University. He remained it's chancellor from 1928 to 1936.
Mushirul Hasan was a historian of modern India. He wrote on the partition of India,communalism,and on the history of Islam in South Asia.
Najeeb Jung is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Delhi from July 2013 to December 2016. He previously served as the 13th Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia from 2009 to 2013.
Riyaz Punjabi was a professor and vice chancellor at the University of Kashmir. He was granted the Padma Shri,one of India's highest civilian awards,in 2011. In 2008 he was granted an honorary professorship at the International University Vienna for his contribution in "Strengthening International Relations in the Sphere of Education". He also won the Amity Academic Excellence Award from Amity International Business School,in 2009,the Fazil Memorial Award in 2009,and the Adbi Markaz Kamraz award in 2010. He died on April 8,2021.
Akhtarul Wasey is an Indian scholar and academician,who serves as the president of Maulana Azad University,in Jodhpur,India. He formerly served as professor of Islamic Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi,where he remains professor emeritus in the Department of Islamic Studies.
Science and Engineering Research Board is a statutory body under the Department of Science and Technology,Government of India,established by an Act of the Parliament of India in 2009. The Board was chaired by the Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Science and Technology. The Board was set up for promoting basic research in science and engineering and to provide financial assistance to scientists,academic institutions,R&D laboratories,industrial concerns and other agencies for such research.Thereafter,it was succeeded by an act called Anusandhan National Research Foundation Act 2023 which formed Anusandhan National Research Foundation in the year 2024.
Masud Husain Khan was an Indian linguist,the first Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University and the fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia,a Central University in New Delhi.
Mohammad Amin was an Indian historian. He was the vice chancellor of Jamia Hamdard;taught History at St. Stephen's College,Delhi University for four decades;and was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2010.
Anil Kumar Tyagi is former Vice Chancellor of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi. Prior to this he was co-ordinator of UGC- SAP Programme and head of Department of Biochemistry at South Campus of Delhi University and was Vice President of the Society of Biological Chemists,India from the year 2004 to 2006.
Furqan Qamar is a former vice-chancellor of University of Rajasthan and first vice-chancellor of Central University of Himachal Pradesh. Earlier he was associated with Association of Indian Universities. Professor Furqan Qamar,was the secretary general of the Association of Indian Universities,i.e. the principal executive officer of the largest and one of the oldest network of universities. He has also served as advisor (education) in the Planning Commission of India.
Sampat Kumar Tandon is an Indian geologist and a professor emeritus of geology at the University of Delhi. He is a former pro-vice chancellor of Delhi University,Sir J. C. Bose Chair Professor of the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Bhopal and a D. N. Wadia Chair Professor of the department of Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur.
Shahid Jameel is an Indian virologist and academic. Dr. Jameel is the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Research Fellow,Green Templeton College,University of Oxford. He serves as the Principal Investigator for the Centre's project on Public Health,Science and Technology in Muslim societies. Previously he was the director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences since its inception in the year 2020 at Ashoka University. He was formerly head of the scientific advisory group to the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortia (INSACOG) established in December 2020,and the chief executive officer of Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance. Known for his research in hepatitis E virus,Jameel is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. National Academy of Sciences,India,Indian Academy of Sciences,and Indian National Science Academy. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 2000.
Appa Rao Podile is an Indian scientist,educator and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad. He was awarded the Millennium Plaques of Honour for his achievements in Life Sciences by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in 2017.
Mohammad Zahid Ashraf is an Indian scientist and an academician. Known for his studies on thrombosis experienced at high altitudes. Ashraf is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences,India,Indian National Sciences Academy and Indian Academy of Sciences,and an elected member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development,one of the highest Indian science awards,for his contributions to biosciences in 2017–18. Ashraf currently serves as a professor and Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences at Jamia Millia Islamia.
Najma Akhtar is an Indian academic and academic administrator. She served as the Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia from 12 April 2019 until 12 November 2023. She is also the first woman to hold the post in JMI. In 2022,she was awarded with Padma Shri by the Government of India.
Khwaja Mohammed Shahid is an Indian career civil servant,academic and administrator who formerly served as Vice Chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University and Registrar of Jamia Millia Islamia University. He was also an eminent visitor to the University Grants Commission.
Mazhar Asif is an Indian academic administrator and scholar,with a focus on Indian mediaeval history and Sufism. He has been serving as the vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia since 24 October 2024. An alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University,he has formerly served as a professor at his alma mater,and as a member of the drafting committee for National Education Policy 2020.
