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'''Ninan Koshy''' ({{Lang-ml|നൈനാൻ കോശി}}; 1 February 1934 – 4 March 2015) was an Indian political [[Intellectual|thinker]], foreign affairs expert, theologian and social analyst. He was born in 1934 in [[Thiruvalla]].<ref name=kk/> Former director of the [[World Council of Churches|WCC's Commission of the Churches on International Affairs]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Health, Migration and Return |last=van Krieken |first=Peter J. |year=2001 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-90-6704-128-7 |pages=205 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uAg6jWr_OyUC&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=prof.ninan+koshy&source=web&ots=qeS_Y-wm0s&sig=ZkH75vWJK3prrsaBPW5kPkeVGL8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result |accessdate=2008-09-03}}</ref> He was an [[Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|LDF]] candidate from Mavelikkara Constituency in 1999 General Election. He is also well known as political commentator,<ref>{{cite news |title=India's Middle Path Through Iraq War |url=http://www.counterpunch.org/koshy04162003.html |work=[[CounterPunch]] |date=2003-04-16 |accessdate=2008-09-03 }}</ref> thinker, [[social activist]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Higher education should be State-funded: Patnaik  |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2007080552750400.htm&date=2007/08/05/&prd=th& |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=2007-08-05 |accessdate=2008-09-03 }}</ref> [[author]] and orator.

Koshy served on a committee to draft [[Kerala]]'s policy on higher education in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kshec.kerala.gov.in/policy_schedule.htm |title=NOTE ON POLICY AND SCHEDULE OF WORK |work=The Kerala State Higher Education Council |accessdate=2008-09-03 }}</ref>

He died in [[Thiruvananthapuram]] on 4 March 2015, aged 81.<ref name=kk>{{cite news|title=Prof Ninan Koshy dies|url=http://www.kaumudi.com/innerpage1.php?newsid=61918|accessdate=4 March 2015|work=Kerala Kaumudi|date=4 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402123242/http://www.kaumudi.com/innerpage1.php?newsid=61918|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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