March 17, 2025 11:05 am (IST)

Amitabh Mattoo appointed as advisor to J&K CM
Srinagar, Apr 27 (IBNS): Jammu and Kashmir State Government has appointed academician and Jammu University's former vice chancellor Amitabh Mattoo as advisor to the Jammu and Kashmir Chief minister Mehbooba Mufi.
Professor Amitabh Mattoo, former vice chancellor of Jammu University, is hereby appointed as the advisor to the chief minister with status cabinet minister, said a government order issued here.
Mattoo was the director of the prestigious India-Australia Institute till recently. Mattoo, a member of the minority Kashmir Pandit community, 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.
Prof Mattoo formerly, too, served as an advisor to former CM late Mufti Muhammad Sayeed who died after brief illness this year.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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