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Professor Amitabh Mattoo (Urdu, ) (born 26 June 1962 in Srinagar) is one of India's leading thinkers and writers on international relations. He is currently Advisor to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, with the status of a Cabinet Minister.〔http://www.jandknow.com/news/fresh/082111400-prof-amitabh-mattoo-appointed-advisor-to-chief-minister〕 He is also Honorary Director of the Australia India Institute @Delhi. He has been the Chief Executive Officer & inaugural Director of the Australia India Institute and Professor of International Relations at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the co-chair of the Australia India Leadership Dialogue. Amitabh Mattoo is widely regarded as an inspiring and innovative builder of institutions and the foremost Indian intellectual seeking to build peace in the South Asian region. He is on leave from New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University where he serves as a Professor of Disarmament Studies at the School of International Studies. Mattoo has been a Member of the National Knowledge Commission, a high-level advisory group to the Prime Minister of India, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu. Mattoo is also President of the Indian Association of International Studies. From November 2002 until early December 2008, he was the youngest ever Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu, and the second youngest Vice Chancellor in the history of modern India. Only Syama Prasad Mookerjee was a younger Vice Chancellor, when he became VC of Calcutta University in 1934 at the age of 33. Mattoo serves on the Governing Council of the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), the Executive Committee and Governing Council of Pugwash, the Nobel Prize–winning NGO, and is a member of the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Well Being. Mattoo is a member of the Academic Council of Vishwabharti University as well as the Executive Council of the Central University of Karnataka. He was appointed a member of India's National Security Council's Advisory Board by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he has been a Director of the India-Afghanistan Foundation (established by the governments of India and Afghanistan) and was a member of the task force constituted by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Global Strategic Developments. The Task Force examined global trends in strategic affairs and their implications for India. His expertise and advice has been sought on matters of national security and foreign policy across parties and governments. ==Family, Early life and Education== Amitabh Mattoo comes from Kashmiri Pandit family of Kashmir, which never left the valley even during the years of conflict. Before the land reforms in Jammu and Kashmir, Mattoo's family was one of the biggest landlords in the state. His grand father, Pandit Raghunath Mattoo was famously known as Jenab Sahib for his generosity and philanthropy, and was Wazir-i-Wazarat and later Governor. His great-grandfather was Pandit Suraj Kak Mattoo who brought up Kashmir Muslim orphans as his own and introduced radical social reforms amongst the Kashmiri Pandits. Mattoo's account of the flight from his flooded home in Srinagar in September 2014 went viral on the web.http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/jammu-and-kashmir-floods-escape-from-an-inundated-valley/article6391904.ece Mattoo had his early education in Burn Hall School, Srinagar and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He earned a D. Phil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom writing a history of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Mattoo qualified for the Indian Police Service in 1987 through the combined civil service exam but preferred a career in academics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amitabh Mattoo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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