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.[1] He was awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2009.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] In 2002, he was the youngest person to be appointed as vice chancellor of a public university in independent India.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] 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.[5] He has been a persistent advocate of multiculturalism and of reconciliation between Kashmiri Pandits and Kashmiri Muslims.[6]
^"Indian professor Amitabh Mattoo honoured in Australia". timesofindia-economictimes. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
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^Now, JandK (21 August 2015). "Prof. Amitabh Mattoo appointed Advisor to Chief Minister with Cabinet Minister rank".
^"Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing". The Lancet. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
^Mattoo, Amitabh (6 August 2019). "Piecing together Kashmir's audacious road map". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
^Mattoo, Amitabh (22 January 2020). "Thirty years on, still no spring for the Pandits". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
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