The vice-chancellor is the executive head of Jawaharlal Nehru University.
The vice-chancellors of JNU are as follows.[1]
| Name | Photo | Took office | Left office | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gopalaswami Parthasarathy | 28 April 1969 | 27 April 1974 | |||
| 2 | 1 July 1974 | 1 Jan 1979 | ||||
| 3 | 3 Jan 1979 | 14 Oct 1980 | ||||
| 4 | 12 June 1981 | 27 Oct 1982 | ||||
| 5 | Pratap Narain Srivastava | 5 March 1983 | 30 Apr 1987 | |||
| 6 | Mohammad Shafi Agwani | 7 Oct 1987 | 6 Oct 1992 | |||
| 7 | 14 Dec 1992 | 28 June 1996 | ||||
| 8 | 29 June 1996 | 30 April 2002 | ||||
| 9 | 1 May 2002 | 6 June 2005 | ||||
| 10 | 29 June 2005 | 27 January 2011 | ||||
| 11 | 28 January 2011 | 27 January 2016 | ||||
| 12 | 28 January 2016 | 3 February 2022 | [2] | |||
| 13 | 7 February 2022 | Incumbent | [3] |