Nageshwar Rao

Nageshwar Rao (born 1955) is a retired Indian professor who served as Vice Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University,^[1][2] largest open university in the world^[3] and former Director of Central Hindi Directorate^[4] and served as Director of Indian Institute of Advanced Study,^[5] Vice Chancellor of Uttarakhand Open University^[6] and Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University^[7] and Honorary Fellow of Commonwealth of Learning.^[8] Before this, he served as Professor from October 1990 and December 2013 at Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Business Management (Pt. JNIBM), Vikram University, Ujjain. He was also Reader in the Faculty of Management Studies at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, between February 1985 and October 1990 and Lecturer in the Department of Commerce & Business Administration, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, between July 1978 to February 1985.^[9]