Here’s all you need to know about Najeeb Jung 

Najeeb Jung had submitted his resignation as the Lieutenant Governor of New Delhi on Thursday.
Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung
Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung

Born on January 18, 1951 in Delhi, Najeeb Jung did his schooling from St. Columba’s School, Delhi. While he pursued his graduation from St. Stephen’s College under DU, he completed his masters in History from the University of Delhi and another M.A. in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics, U.K. 

Najeeb Jung joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1973 from the M.P. Cadre. He has served in Madhya Pradesh as the Collector and District Magistrate of 3 districts, M.D. of the M.P. Oil Seeds Development Federation and the M.P. Finance Corporation. He also served as the Private Secretary to Madhavrao Scindia, Minister for Railways and had been Director, Department of Steel, Government of India and Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India.

Najeeb worked as Senior Energy Advisor and Principal Energy Specialist from 1995 to 1999 at the Asian Development Bank. He has been a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford University, teaching and guiding Ph.D students (1999 to 2002). He returned to Asian Development Bank (2002-05) as In-charge of Restructuring the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources in Afghanistan. He rehabilitated and redeveloped the entire gas production system as well as natural gas distribution system and introduced modern marketing for the sale of oil products.

He returned to the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies in 2005. He has advised international oil and gas companies on future development and published two books on the development of the natural gas industry.

In 2008, he returned to India and was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia in 2009. 

A prolific writer and a regular columnist in national and international newspapers, Najeeb Jung recently published ‘Fikr-o-Aagahi’ in Urdu. His published works include books on energy issues dealing with India and South Asia (to be published by Oxford University press), politics of the Afghan-Pakistan region and a collection of his essays in English.

Jung's family features a long line of forefathers who have held positions of great power in their times. His grandparents served as the chief justice and chief engineer in the court of the last Nizam of Hyderabad. A great-grandfather was one of the co-founders of the Aligarh Muslim University.

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