Ambassador Venu Rajamony will be joining Jindal Global Law School as Professor of Diplomatic Practice.
A career diplomat with 34 years of experience, scholar and former journalist, Venu Rajamony is a well-known public speaker, author and patron of arts and culture. Rajamony was Ambassador of India to The Netherlands from 2017 to 2020. He was also the Permanent Representative of India to the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at The Hague, and responsible for India’s relations with the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Ambassador Rajamony obtained an LLB degree degrees from the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala and a Masters degree in International Studies from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Ambassador Rajamony authored two books during this tenure in the Netherlands – What We Can Learn from The Dutch – Rebuilding Kerala post 2018 Floods and India and the Netherlands – Past, Present and Future. The latter was released by the Dutch King Hiss Royal Highness Willem-Alexander in September 2019 and has won praise as an encyclopaedia of the cross-cultural encounter between India and the Netherlands. The book What Can We Learn from The Dutch – Rebuilding Kerala Post 2018 Floods was released in January 2019.
Ambassador Rajamony held the office of Press Secretary to the Indian President Pranab Mukherjee from 2012 to 2017. He was part of President Mukherjee’s team during interaction with visiting leaders such as Emperor Akihito of Japan, President Xi Jinping of China, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Barack Obama of USA. He was member of President Mukherjee’s delegation during State visits to 20 countries, including China, Russia, Israel, Bangladesh, and Vietnam. He also accompanied the President on more than 100 official tours within India.
Rajamony served as Joint Secretary and head of Multilateral Institutions Division of the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India from 2010-2012. He was responsible for formulating India’s policies towards the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
In this capacity, he supervised external assistance to India of around $34 billion (spread over 140 projects). He was India’s Deputy to the International Development Association and member of India’s delegations to the Spring and Autumn Meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee of the IMF and the Development Committee of the World Bank Group as well as the Annual General Meetings of the ADB.
Rajamony’s tenure as Consul General of India in Dubai from 2007 to 2010 marked a high point in relations between India and the United Arab Emirates. He received great acclaim for his efforts to advance the welfare of the over two million Indians, promote trade and investment, reach out to UAE nationals, and enhance India’s image and soft power.
He capped his stint in Dubai with the publication of a coffee table book titled India and the UAE: In Celebration of a Legendary Friendship. A Malayalam version of the book was released in Kerala in 2013 and the Arabic version was published in the UAE in 2014.
Rajamony also served in the Indian missions in Hong Kong, Beijing, Geneva, and Washington, D.C. He worked as Chef de Cabinet to External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha from 2003 to 2005 and was Asia Foundation Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC between 2001 and 2002. He authored a monograph – ‘The India-China-US Triangle: A Soft Balance of Power in the Making’ during his fellowship at the CSIS. Fluent in Chinese, which he studied at the University of Hong Kong, Rajamony is proficient in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and French.
Naveen provides a lot of funds. They charge an arm and a leg from their students and has a huge batch size. They managed to sell their hostel management rights to Goldman Sachs recently in a multi crore deal. Funding is not really an issue for them.
There are plenty of NUJS alumni teaching abroad. Further, people who work here do not do so by way of compulsion. Plenty of legal academics are idealistic enough to want to work in their own country, be close to their family etc., serve their own alma and so on. The fact that you cannot appreciate that is indicative of your mindset, and not of their lack of ability. Further, the number of NUJS alumni who have joined academics eventually is actually higher than those from NALSAR etc. That might be because of the higher batch strength.
Yes, that's true. You will find that most NLSIU and NALSAR alumni in academia are based abroad. It clearly seems like the brand value gives them an extra edge.
If you ask me, the rockstar amongst them is undoubtedly Prof. Ran "William" Chakrabarti. Ask his former colleagues at Amarchand, what a rockstar he was. Of course, Dr Ranjan too is a wonderful hire, besides being a great faculty, he is also a very pragmatic person. Seeing the Faculty, somehow I again want to go back to law school!
Interesting that many NUJS alumni join Jindal but much fewer NLSIU/NALSAR alumni. Is it because NLSIU/NALSAR alumni get more opportunities to teach abroad?
Lmao former "whistleblower" who retracted the whistle because he was employed by the very company he accused of wrongdoing. Hint: The company is Essar. And the distinguished [...] who became its senior vice president legal [...] is.....?
Ambassador Venu Rajamony will be joining Jindal Global Law School as Professor of Diplomatic Practice.
A career diplomat with 34 years of experience, scholar and former journalist, Venu Rajamony is a well-known public speaker, author and patron of arts and culture. Rajamony was Ambassador of India to The Netherlands from 2017 to 2020. He was also the Permanent Representative of India to the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at The Hague, and responsible for India’s relations with the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Ambassador Rajamony obtained an LLB degree degrees from the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala and a Masters degree in International Studies from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Ambassador Rajamony authored two books during this tenure in the Netherlands – What We Can Learn from The Dutch – Rebuilding Kerala post 2018 Floods and India and the Netherlands – Past, Present and Future. The latter was released by the Dutch King Hiss Royal Highness Willem-Alexander in September 2019 and has won praise as an encyclopaedia of the cross-cultural encounter between India and the Netherlands. The book What Can We Learn from The Dutch – Rebuilding Kerala Post 2018 Floods was released in January 2019.
Ambassador Rajamony held the office of Press Secretary to the Indian President Pranab Mukherjee from 2012 to 2017. He was part of President Mukherjee’s team during interaction with visiting leaders such as Emperor Akihito of Japan, President Xi Jinping of China, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Barack Obama of USA. He was member of President Mukherjee’s delegation during State visits to 20 countries, including China, Russia, Israel, Bangladesh, and Vietnam. He also accompanied the President on more than 100 official tours within India.
Rajamony served as Joint Secretary and head of Multilateral Institutions Division of the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India from 2010-2012. He was responsible for formulating India’s policies towards the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
In this capacity, he supervised external assistance to India of around $34 billion (spread over 140 projects). He was India’s Deputy to the International Development Association and member of India’s delegations to the Spring and Autumn Meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee of the IMF and the Development Committee of the World Bank Group as well as the Annual General Meetings of the ADB.
Rajamony’s tenure as Consul General of India in Dubai from 2007 to 2010 marked a high point in relations between India and the United Arab Emirates. He received great acclaim for his efforts to advance the welfare of the over two million Indians, promote trade and investment, reach out to UAE nationals, and enhance India’s image and soft power.
He capped his stint in Dubai with the publication of a coffee table book titled India and the UAE: In Celebration of a Legendary Friendship. A Malayalam version of the book was released in Kerala in 2013 and the Arabic version was published in the UAE in 2014.
Rajamony also served in the Indian missions in Hong Kong, Beijing, Geneva, and Washington, D.C. He worked as Chef de Cabinet to External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha from 2003 to 2005 and was Asia Foundation Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC between 2001 and 2002. He authored a monograph – ‘The India-China-US Triangle: A Soft Balance of Power in the Making’ during his fellowship at the CSIS. Fluent in Chinese, which he studied at the University of Hong Kong, Rajamony is proficient in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and French.
What will be the pay scale for all of them? (Especially the Former Indus Partner)
Are these permanent full time hires or just adjunct?
Of course, Dr Ranjan too is a wonderful hire, besides being a great faculty, he is also a very pragmatic person.
Seeing the Faculty, somehow I again want to go back to law school!
- New Vice Dean Prabhash Ranjan
LLB B.A. LL.B. (University of Delhi); LL.M. (University of London); Ph.D. (King’s College London)
- Former Indus Partner Ran William Chakrabarti
B.Sc.; M.Sc. (London School of Economics); LL.B. (King’s College London); LL.M. (Leiden University)
- Former lawyer-cum-whistleblower journalist at Tehelka Ashish Khetan
B.A. LL.B. (Delhi University); LL.M. (University of Cambridge
- NLU alumni hires:
1. Namrata Mukherjee B.A. LL.B. (WBNUJS, Kolkata); LL.M. (Columbia University)
2. Pankhuri Agarwal B.A. LL.B. (WBNUJS, Kolkata); LL.M. (National University of Singapore)
3. Upasana Dasgupta B.A.; LL.B. (RMLNLU, Lucknow); LL.M.; DCL Candidate (McGill University)
4. Madhav Shankar B.A. LL.B. (NLU, Delhi); LL.M. (Tilburg University)
5. Tariang Bdap Dkhar B.Sc, LL.B. (NLU, Jodhpur); LL.M. (SOAS University of London)