14 World Leaders who have studied in Indian Universities

Even as the IITs, IIMs, NITs and universities like JNU, Bombay University are world acclaimed, more and more students are shifting abroad to pursue higher education.

For years, Indian colleges have made it to the global lists highlighting universities with academic excellence. Even then our young minds are drifting away. Little do they know that some of the Indian colleges have hosted those who are world leaders today.

They have shaped these future leaders who are known to people all over the world. Here are some of these world leaders who have studied in India. Take a look:

Aung San Suu Kyi – Incumbent State Counsellor of Myanmar, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Went to school at Convent of Jesus and Mary. Graduated from Lady Shri Ram College in 1964. Fellow at Shimla’s Indian Institute of Advanced Studies.

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Hamid Karzai – Former President of Pakistan

Masters’ in International Relations and Political Science from Himachal Pradesh University in Shimla (1979 to 1983)

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Bingu Wa Mutharika – Former President of Malawi

Bachelors’ in Economics from SRCC in 1961 Masters’ in Economics from Delhi School of Economics (1964)

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Olusegun Obasanjo – Former President of Nigeria (1999-2007), former military ruler (1976-79)

Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, Tamil Nadu College of Military Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra

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Baburam Bhattarai – Former PM of Nepal (2011-13)

Chandigarh College of Architecture (1970s) followed by School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi PhD from Centre for the Study of Regional Develoment, JNU (1979-80)

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Jigme Singye Wangchuk – Former King of Bhutan (1972-2006)

Initial schooling from St Joseph’s, Darjeeling

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Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk – Current King of Bhutan
(From 2006)

National Defence College (2005)

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Lieutenant General Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo – Former Head of the State of Ghana (1978-79)

National Defence College (1973)

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General Hussain Muhammad Ershad – Former President of Bangladesh (1983-1990)

National Defence College (mid-1970s)

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Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev – 11th king of Nepal (1972-2001)

Schooling from St Joseph’s, Darjeeling (1950s)

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Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev – 12th king of Nepal (2001-2008)

Senior Cambridge from St.Joseph’s Darjeeling

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Manouchehr Mottaki

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John Samuel Malecela – Former PM of Tanzania (1990-94)

Bachelors’ in Commerce from Bombay University (1959)

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Sitiveni Rabuka- Former PM of Fiji (1992-1999)

Defence Services Staff COllege, Wellington, Tamil Nadu (1979)

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