Distinguished Visitors to the Dept. of Political Science, JMI
- Prof. Peter Jones, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.
- Mukul Sharma, Director, Amnesty International India.
- Prof. Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics.
- B.G. Vergheese, Veteran Journalist.
- M.J. Akbar, Veteran Journalist.
- Wajahat Habibullah, Chairman, National Commission for Minorities.
- Prof. James Manor, Emeka Anyaoku Chair in Commonwealth Studies, University of London.
- Dr. Faisal Devji, University Reader in Modern South Asian History, University of Oxford.
- Prof. Marc Galanter, John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and LSE Centennial Professor.
- Prof. Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor & Chair Department of Anthropology, John Hopkins University.
- Barkha Dutt, Group Editor, NDTV 24X7.
- P.R. Chari, Senior Professor, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.
- Vikram Sood, Former, Director, RAW, Vice-President, Observer Research Foundation.
- G. Parthasarthy, Former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan.
- Prem Shankar Jha, Veteran Journalist.
- Amb. Satyabrata Pal, Member, National Human Rights Commission
- Ajit Doval, Former Director, Intelligence Bureau
- Prof. Nandini Sundar, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi
- Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State, Human Resource Development
- Suhaisini Haidar, Foreign Affairs Editor, CNN-IBN
- Shoma Chaudhury, Managing Editor, Tehelka
- Prof. Paul Brass,Professor Emeritus of political science and international relations at the University of Washington
- Prof. Patrick Heller, Department of Sociology, Brown University
- Dr. E. Sridharan, Academic Director, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India
- Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director, Amnesty Internation
- Prof. Aditya Nigam, Senior Fellow, CSDS, New Delhi
- Prof. Anuradha Chenoy, School of International Studies, JNU
- Sumanta Banerjee, Independent Scholar
- Prof. Kamal Mitra Chenoy, School of International Studies, JNU
- Prof.Chintamani Mahapatra, School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi
- Dr. Justin Podur, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment Studies, York University
- Prof. Vijay Prasad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Dr.Srdjan Vucetic, Dept. of Political Science, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Dr.Thierry DiCostanzo, University of Strasbourg, France
- Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal, Wadhwani Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, USA
- Prof.K.P.Vijaylakshmi, School of International Studies, JNU, Delhi
- Prof.Jeffrey W. Legro, Randolph P. Compton Professor in the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, USA