Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center
Professor of International Relations and Geography and the Environment

Specialization: International Negotiation; Sustainable Development; Human Development and Human Security; International Environmental Politics; Politics of the Muslim World; Politics of South Asia.

Adil Najam is an expert in international diplomacy and development. He taught at Boston University from 1997 to 2003, followed by a stint at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University from 2003 to 2007. His research interests include sustainable development, Muslim and South Asian politics, environmental politics in developing countries, and philanthropy among immigrant communities in the United States.

Najam's work has focused on longer-term global policy problems, especially those related to human well-being and sustainable development. He contributed to Pakistan's first environmental policy document, as well as to that country's report to the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, has worked closely with governments and civil society in both industrialized and developing countries, and regularly collaborates with the United Nations. For eight years he has been a coordinating lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Najam's publications include: Civic Entrepreneurship; Global Environmental Governance; Portrait of a Giving Community: Philanthropy by the Pakistani-American Diaspora; and Southern Visions on Trade and Sustainable Development.

For more information see:      http://www.bu.edu/ir/faculty/najam.html