Who is Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit?

The Ministry of Education on February 7, 2022, appointed Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit as Jawaharlal Nehru University's (JNU) first female Vice-Chancellor (VC) and her tenure will be of five years. She is a political science professor at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Savitribai Phule University in Maharashtra.

 

Pandit is the second female Vice-Chancellor of a central university in Delhi selected by the Education Ministry after Professor Najma Akhtar of Jamia Millia Islamia.

She is also an alumna of JNU where she pursued her MPhil as well as PhD in International Relations. Her thesis was on ' Parliament and Foreign Policy