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List of Chief Guest of ISI Convocation since 1962
Year |
Name of the Chief Guest |
1962 |
Sir Ronald A. Fisher Fellow of Royal Society, London |
1963 |
Professor Arthur Linder, M. D. (Honoris Causa) University of Geneva and Federal Technological Institute, Zurich |
1965 |
Professor Arne Muntzing Director, Institute of Genetics University of Lund, Sweden |
1966 |
Professor Friedrich Vogel Director, Institute of Anthropology and Human Genetics Univ. of Heidelberg, West Germany |
1967 |
Professor P. C. Mahalanobis, F.R.S., D. Sc., F.N.I. Secretary, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata |
1968 |
Sir Harry Campion Kt., C.B., C.B.E. Former President of the International Statistical Institute and Director of Central Statistical Office, London. |
1970 |
Professor R. L. M. Synge, F.R.S.. Nobel Laureate University of East Anglia, Norwich, England |
1973 |
Professor Amartya Sen London School of Economics, U.K. |
1974 |
Professor Jerzy Neyman University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. |
1975 |
Professor Marc Nerlove North-Western University |
1977 |
Professor Harald Cramer University of Stockholm, Sweden |
1978 |
Shri Morarji Desai, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India |
1979 |
Professor P. V. Sukhatme M.A.C.S. Research Institute, Pune |
1980 |
Professor S. Varadarajan Chairman and Managing Director Indian Petrochemicals Co. Ltd. & President, Indian Academy of Sciences |
1981 |
Professor V. Ramalingaswami Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research and Former President of the Indian National Science Academy |
1982 |
Professor J. V. Narlikar Professor and Head, Theoretical Astrophysics Group Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay |
1983 |
Professor Sukhamoy Chakravarty Delhi School of Economics, Delhi |
1984 |
Professor Paul Erdos Mathematical Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary |
1985 |
Professor Edward Nelson Princeton University |
1985 |
Professor T. W. Anderson Stanford University |
1987 |
Professor C. R. Rao, Fellow of Royal Society, London National Professor of India and Professor of Statistics Pennsylvania State Univ. USA |
1988 |
Sir David Cox, F.R.S., Imperial College of Science and Technology, London |
1989 |
Professor Obaid Siddiqi, F.R.S. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay |
1989 |
Professor C. R. Rao National Professor of India and Professor of Statistics, Pennsylvania State Univ. USA |
1991 |
Professor A. P. Mitra, F.R.S. General Director, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Govt. of India |
1992 |
Professor C.N.R. Rao, F.R.S. Indian Institute of Science and President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research |
1993 |
Professor R. Narasimha, F.R.S. Director, National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore |
1994 |
G. Ram Reddy, Chairman, University Grants Commission, New Delhi |
1995 |
Professor U. R. Rao Member, Space Commission, Bangalore, India. |
1996 |
Dr. R. A. Mashelakar Director General, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research |
1997 |
C. Rangarajan Governor, Reserve Bank of India |
1998 |
Professor M. N. Venkatachaliah Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission |
1999 |
Sir Walter F. Bodmer, FRCPath, FRS Principal, Hertford College, Oxford. |
2000 |
Shri K. C. Pant Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Govt. of India |
2001 |
Dr. K. Kasturirangan Chairman, Space Commission Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation. |
2002 |
Dr. Bimal Jalan Governor, Reserve Bank of India |
2003 |
R., Chidambaram Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of India and DAE-Homi Bhabha Professor, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre |
2004 |
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam President of India |
2005 |
Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi The Ho’ble Governor of West Bengal |
2006 |
Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh Professor, Univ. of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. |
2007 |
Sir Michael Brady, FRS, F.R.Engg., FIEE B.P. Professor of Information Engineering University of Oxford |
2008 |
Professor Mark E. Welland, FRS, F.R.Eng. University of Cambridge Cambridge, U.K. |
2009 |
Professor Mriganka Sur |
2010
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Shri M. K. Narayanan The Governor of West Bengal |
2011 |
Professor Sastry G. Pantula |
2012 |
Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz Nobel Laureate Columbia University |
2013 |
Professor James A. Mirrlees Nobel Laureate University of Cambridge |
2014 |
Shri Pranab Mukherjee Hon’ble President of India |
2015 |
Professor Eeric S. Maskin Nobel Laureate Harvard University |
2016 |
Professor Ei-ichi Negishi Nobel Laureate Purdue University |
2017 |
Professor Leslie Gabriel Valiant A. M. Turing Award Winner Harvard University |
2018 |
Professor David Jonathan Gross Nobel Laureate Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barabara |