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Adil Najam
Pardee Center
67 Bay State Road
Room 403
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
(617) 358-4003
(617) 353-4001 fax
anajam@bu.edu |
Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center; Professor of International Relations and Geography and the Environment. (BSc, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore; MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, MS in Technology and Policy, and PhD in International Environmental Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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.
Much of his 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.
Najam has published widely and has written nearly 100 scholarly papers and book chapters. His recent books include: Civic Entrepreneurship; Global Environmental Governance; Portrait of a Giving Community: Philanthropy by the Pakistani-American Diaspora; and Environment, Development and Human Security: Perspectives from South Asia.
Najam is a past winner of MIT's Goodwin Medal for Effective Teaching, the Fletcher School Paddock Teaching Award, the Stein Rokan Award of the International Political Science Association, the ARNOVA Emerging Scholar Award, and the Pakistan Television Medal for Outstanding Achievement. He serves on the editorial boards of various scholarly publications including: Global Governance, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly; The Journal of Ecological Economics; Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development; Annual Editions: Environment; and The Encyclopedia of Earth. Adil Najam was among the lead authors of the Third and Fourth Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Professor Najam teaches the following courses:
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