Prof. Naima Khatoon is the vice chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University.

She is the first female vice-chancellor in the history of the university.

Khatoon earned her PhD in Psychology from the Aligarh Muslim University and joined as a lecturer in the Department of Psychology in 1988.

She also served as an associate professor at the National University of Rwanda for a period of one year from 1999 to 2000.

She then rejoined Aligarh Muslim University as an associate professor and became Professor in 2006.