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Najeeb Jung

Najeeb Jung
नजीब जंग
Najeeb Jung (cropped).JPG
Jung in 2011
Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
In office
July 9, 2013 – December 22, 2016
Preceded by Tejendra Khanna
Succeeded by Anil Baijal
Personal details
Born (1951-01-18) January 18, 1951 (age 66)
Delhi
Alma mater Delhi University
London School of Economics
Religion Islam

Najeeb Jung (born 18 January 1951) is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Delhi from July 2013 to December 2016. He previously served as the 13th Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia, from 2009 to 2013.

Najeeb Jung's grandparents served as the chief justice and chief engineer in the court of the last Nizam of Hyderabad. His great grandfather was one of the co-founders of the Aligarh Muslim University.

Jung was born and raised in Delhi, where he attended St.Columba's School, New Delhi. He then did his BA (Hons) and MA in History from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, University of Delhi. He later completed M.Sc in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics.

Jung joined Indian Administrative Service in 1973 and was encadered into the Madhya Pradesh cadre. He served as Private Secretary to Madhavrao Scindia, Minister for Railways and had been Director in Government of India in the Ministry of Steel. He later served as Joint Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas from year 1994 to 1999. He resigned from the service in 1999.

He later served as a Senior Energy Specialist at the Asian Development Bank, as Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford and as Director for Energy Research at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.


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