The vice-chancellor is the executive head of Jawaharlal Nehru University.
The vice-chancellors of JNU are as follows. [1]
# | Name | Photo | Took office | Left office | Ref |
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1 | Gopalaswami Parthasarathy | 28 April 1969 | 27 April 1974 | ||
2 | Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri |
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1 July 1974 | 1 Jan 1979 | |
3 | K. R. Narayanan |
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3 Jan 1979 | 14 Oct 1980 | |
4 | Yelavarthy Nayudamma | 12 June 1981 | 27 Oct 1982 | ||
5 | Pratap Narain Srivastava | 5 March 1983 | 30 Apr 1987 | ||
6 | Mohammad Shafi Agwani | 7 Oct 1987 | 6 Oct 1992 | ||
7 | Yoginder K. Alagh |
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14 Dec 1992 | 28 June 1996 | |
8 | Asis Datta | 29 June 1996 | 30 April 2002 | ||
9 | Gopal Krishna Chadha | 1 May 2002 | 6 June 2005 | ||
10 | Barid Baran Bhattacharya | 29 June 2005 | 27 January 2011 | ||
11 | Sudhir Kumar Sopory | 28 January 2011 | 27 January 2016 | ||
12 | M. Jagadesh Kumar |
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28 January 2016 | 3 February 2022 | [2] |
13 | Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit |
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7 February 2022 | Incumbent | [3] |