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Place of Birth: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
About A. M. Khusro
- Professor Dr.
- Syed Ali Mohammad Khusro Hussaini belonged to Hyderabad.
- He was an intellectual.
- He was also related to the Nizam of Hyderabad's family.
- He served as the Vice-Chancellor Aligarh Muslim University (1974–79), a diplomat (Ambassador of India in Bonn 1980–82), head of charitable Institutions – Aga Khan Foundation (India), President, Federation of Indo-German Societies in India and Chairman of The Eleventh Finance Commission of India.
- One of interviews of him - Click Professor Syed Ali Mohammad Khusro Hussaini was born in Hyderabad on 1 May 1925, graduated from Osmania University, Hyderabad and completed his Ph.D in Economics at the University of Leeds in 1952. Professor Khusro was a distinguished academic, journalist, administrator and policy analyst in India before passing away in August 2003.
- He was one of India’s most celebrated economists, and Professor of Economics at the Delhi University from 1957 to 1974.
- He was also director of the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi; Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University; India’s ambassador to West Germany, a Member of the Planning Commission; Chairman of Eleventh Finance Commission; member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council and Director on the board of Indian Express Newspapers.
- He was author of 22 books and a number of articles in national and international journals and newspapers.
- The German government conferred upon him the 'Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit'.
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