Yash Tandon

Yashpal Tandon (born 21 June 1939) is a Ugandan policymaker, political activist, professor, author and public intellectual. He has lectured extensively in the areas of International Relations and Political economy. He was deeply involved in the struggle against the dictatorship of Idi Amin in 1970's Uganda and has spent time in exile. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles and has served on the editorial boards of many journals.

Yash Tandon was born on 21 June 1939 in the village of Kaberamaido in the Teso District of Uganda. He is married with two children. He speaks English, Punjabi, Gujarati and Swahili.

He holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics (1961). He completed his Ph.D. in International relations at the London School of Economics in 1969.

He won the 1962 David Davies Memorial Institute in International Peace Prize, London, U.K.

From 1964–72 Tandon lectured at the Makerere University,Kampala, Uganda before reading in International relations there. He spent three months as a visiting lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam in 1968. He spent another three months as a visiting lecturer at the National Institute of Public Administration in Lusaka, Zambia in 1972. From 1967–68, Tandon spent fifteen months in a senior research fellowship at Columbia University, New York City.

From 1972 to 1973 he lectured in International Relations at the London School of Economics, UK. In 1973, Tandon returned to Africa in the role of Professor in Political Economy at the University of Dar es Salaam. Upon his return to Uganda following the collapse of Amin’s government, he was professor in International Relations at Makerere University, lecturing in African International Relations.

From 1982–83, Tandon was a visiting professor/consultant with the Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies in Harare.

Following his completion of education in London, Tandon returned to Uganda. He left in 1972 with the rise to power of Idi Amin. He went into exile, first in Kenya for three months, and then in the UK for nine months.

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