Nageshwar Rao (born 1955) is a retired Indian professor who served as Vice Chancellor of

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, largest open university in the world and former Director of Central Hindi Directorate and served as Director of

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, Vice Chancellor of

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and Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University and Honorary Fellow of

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. Before this, he served as

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from October 1990 and December 2013 at Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Business Management (Pt. JNIBM),

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. He was also Reader in the Faculty of Management Studies at

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, between February 1985 and October 1990 and

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in the Department of Commerce & Business Administration,

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, Allahabad, between July 1978 to February 1985.

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