Amar Chand Joshi (18 September 1908 – 14 February 1971) was an Indian botanist and academic administrator, who served as the Vice-Chancellor of Panjab University, Chandigarh, India; and the Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

[1] Joshi co authored a book titled Lahore District Flora with Shiv Ram Kashyap.

Joshi was forced to leave Lahore during the Partition of India in 1947, and he took over as Professor of Botany at the newly established Botanical Laboratory at Government College, Hoshiarpur, in 1947 where he worked until 1951.

In 1953, Joshi was appointed as Director of Public Instruction (DPI) and Secretary to the Punjab Government, where he worked until 1957.

[citation needed] In 1957, he was appointed Vice Chancellor[5] of Panjab University, Chandigarh, and he served until June 1965.