Pratap bhanu mehta biography

Indian academic (born )

Pratap Bhanu Mehta (born ) is an Indian academic. He was the president of the Centre for Policy Research, a New Delhi-based think tank^[1] and was the Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University from July to July ^[2]

Early life

Pratap was born in a RajasthaniJain family in Jodhpur.^[3] His initial schooling was at the St.

Edwards School in Shimla and St. Xaviers, Jaipur.^[4] Mehta obtained a B.A. from St John's College, Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) and a Ph.D in Politics from Princeton University.

Career

Mehta has held several teaching positions.

He was a professor at NYU School of Law, a Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University, Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard, and for a brief period, Professor of Philosophy and of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University.^[5] He was Member-Convenor of the Prime Minister of