Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain is an Indian academic.

Hasnain spent several years at the Texas A&M University, U.S., and returned to India in 1987 to work as a staff scientist at the National Institute of Immunology (NII).

[1] Hasnain was appointed as the first director of Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) in February 1999.

[2] He took charge as vice-chancellor of Jamia Hamdard,[3] New Delhi on 2 September 2016 and served the office till 2021.

An invited professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2011–2018), he is currently serving as one of the first 5 National Science Chair of SERB at IIT, Delhi.