A professor at Savitribai Phule Pune University, Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, has been appointed as the first woman Vice-Chancellor of New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. An alumnus of JNU, 59-year-old Pandit has been appointed for five years from the date she assumes the charge as JNU's 13th Vice-Chancellor. Pandit has been in the teaching field since 1988.