Talat Ahmad [SEP] educated at
University of Kashmir by a search committee headed by former member of Planning Commission, Prof. Abid Hussain, former Indian Ambassador to USA, and comprising Professor G. K. Chadha, CEO, South Asian University and former Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Prof. Seyed E. Hasnain, an eminent Scientist and former Vice-Chancellor of University of Hyderabad.
Talat Ahmad is the first Vice Chancellor to serve a second term and the second Vice Chancellor to be appointed from outside the state of Jammu and Kashmir in the past two decades
. Prior to this, he was teaching Geology at the University of Delhi.
Talat Ahmad was selected to serve a second term as Vice Chancellor University of Kashmir after he was selected by Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Narinder Nath Vohra in his capacity as Chancellor of the State University. He was handed over charge by Professor Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi who had been serving as officiating Vice-Chancellor since October 2017 after his tenure was over.
During his first tenure, Talat Ahmad was recommended for the position of Vice-Chancellor,