{"id":1554,"date":"2025-05-08T12:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ardorcomm-media.com\/aelsa\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:06:15","slug":"prof-v-n-rajasekharan-pillai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ardorcomm-media.com\/aelsa\/prof-v-n-rajasekharan-pillai\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1503 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ardorcomm-media.com\/aelsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Rajasekharan-Pillai.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"201\" \/>Prof. V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai is a renowned Indian scientist, educator, and academic leader with over five decades of experience. He currently serves as Vice-Chancellor of Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai, and Chancellor of ICFAI University, Himachal Pradesh. He has held several key positions, including Chairman and Vice-Chairman of UGC, Executive Director of NAAC, and Vice-Chancellor of IGNOU, Mahatma Gandhi University, and Cochin University. He also served as Executive Vice-President of the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment and held senior government roles in Kerala. A visionary institution-builder, Prof. Pillai has significantly contributed to higher education, scientific research, and policy development, shaping India\u2019s academic landscape with his strategic insight and lifelong commitment to learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai is a renowned Indian scientist, educator, and academic leader with over five decades of experience. He currently serves as Vice-Chancellor of Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai, and Chancellor of ICFAI University, Himachal Pradesh. He has held several key positions, including Chairman and Vice-Chairman of UGC, Executive Director of NAAC, and Vice-Chancellor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bios"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ardorcomm-media.com\/aelsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ardorcomm-media.com\/aelsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ardorcomm-media.com\/aelsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ardorcomm-media.com\/aelsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ardorcomm-media.com\/aelsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ardorcomm-media.com\/aelsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ardorcomm-media.com\/aelsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ardorcomm-media.com\/aelsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ardorcomm-media.com\/aelsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}