Yash Tandon

Yashpal Tandon (born 21 June 1939) is a Ugandan policymaker, political activist, professor, author and public intellectual.

[3] He was deeply involved in the struggle against the dictatorship of Idi Amin in 1970's Uganda and has spent time in exile.

Yash Tandon was born on 21 June 1939 to traders of Indian origin who had settled in the village of Kaberamaido in the Teso District of Uganda.

He spent another three months as a visiting lecturer at the National Institute of Public Administration in Lusaka, Zambia in 1972.

From 1967 to 1968, Tandon spent fifteen months in a senior research fellowship at Columbia University, New York City.

[6] In 1973, Tandon returned to Africa in the role of Professor in Political Economy at the University of Dar es Salaam.

In the 1970s Tandon engaged in underground political work with broad democratic force for change of the Amin regime in Uganda.

In the 1970s, he was the executive director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR),[6][17] a consultant at the International Peace Academy in New York and a founder member of the Uganda Asia Evacuees Association.

He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including Mawazo (Makerere), Instant Research on Peace and Violence (Finland) and Sage International Yearbook on Foreign Policy Studies (Syracuse, USA), African Review,[19] Utafiti (as chief editor),[20] Economic Journal of Zimbabwe.