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.

Early and personal life

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.

Academic career

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.