Syed Iqbal Hasnain | |
Birth Place: | India |
Yearsactive: | ????–2010 |
Awards: | Padma Shri |
Syed Iqbal Hasnain is an Indian glaciologist, writer, educationist and the Chairman of the Glacier and Climate Change Commission of the Government of Sikkim.[1] He is a former vice chancellor of the University of Calicut[2] and a member of the United Nations Environment Program Committee on Global Assessment of Black Carbon and Troposphere Ozone.[3]
Between 2002 and 2006, Hasnain served as a vice-chancellor (President) of the University of Calicut, India. Previously, he held the post of Professor of Glaciology, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), where he introduced glaciology as a subject at the post-graduate research level.