Pooran Chand Joshi

P. C. Joshi, served as 23rd Pro Vice Chancellor of University of Delhi[1](born 1 June 1956 at Village Khairakot, Manan, Almora) is a former Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, India.

[2] Prof. P. C. Joshi Pro Vice Chancellor of University of Delhi assumed office on 28 June 2020 Prof. Joshi was a delegate of the European Union at the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference held at Poznan, Poland in 2008.

PC Joshi to assume office of acting Vice Chancellor of University of Delhi forthwith till further arrangements.

P. C. Joshi was a recipient in 1987 of the Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra National Award as a founder member of Friends of Trees, and the Inter-University Centre Associateship Award in Humanities and Social Sciences, 1996–1999, Certificate of Honour at the First France-India Meet on Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, 2007, Plaque of Appreciation from Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Xavier University Ateneo de Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, 2008, and Certificate of Appreciation on his research on disaster impacts in Asia and Europe by Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia in 2009, among other honours and distinctions.

He has worked in interdisciplinary areas with psychiatrists, psychologists, epidemiologists and other researchers on various topics and co-authored many papers.