About Prof Amitabh Mattoo :

Prof Amitabh Mattoo is one of India's leading thinkers and writers on international relations. He was awarded a Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2009. He is Professor of Disarmament Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Honorary Professor of International Relations at the University of Melbourne. He has also been a member of the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing. In 2002, he was the youngest person to be appointed as Vice Chancellor of a public university in independent India. 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.Until 19 June 2018, he served as Advisor to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, with the status of a Cabinet Minister 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. He has been a persistent advocate of multiculturalism and of reconciliation between Kashmiri Pandits and Kashmiri Muslims.

Academic Qualifications :

• 1988-1992: Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. Title of thesis: The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: A Study of its re-emergence, Growth and Decline in the 1980s.
• 1987: International Course in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
• 1984-1986: M.Phil. in Disarmament Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
• 1982-1984: M.A. in International Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
• 1979-1982: B.A. in Politics, Economics and Geography, University of Kashmir.

Leadership, Membership & Honors :

• Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Hindustan University, 1, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Padur, Kelambakam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 603103, 2016.
• Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian awards, by the President of India for excellence in education and public life, 2008.

Task Force Reports

• G-20: The Way Forward
• The Indian Ocean Region: Security, Stability and Sustainability in the 21st Centurywith Dennis Rumley et al., Australia India Institute, Melbourne, 2013.
• Jammu and Kashmir: An Agenda for the Future, with Salman Khurshid et al, Delhi Policy Group, New Delhi, 2007.