Adil Najam
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Adil Najam
Pardee Center
67 Bay State Road
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
(617) 358-4002
(617) 353-4001 fax
anajam@bu.edu |
Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future; Professor of International Relations and Geography and the Environment. (B.Engg., 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.
Prof. Adil Najam served as a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), work for which the IPCC was awarded the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize along with Al Gore. Apart from Boston Univeristy, he
has also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
University of Massachusetts, and at the Flecther School of Law and
Diplomacy, Tufts Univeristy. He has written over 100 scholarly papers
and book chapters and serves on the editorial boards of many scholarly
journals. He 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. Prof. Najam is frequently interviewed by and
writes for the popular media and is the founding editor of the blog
Pakistaniat.com.
Adil Najam is an expert in international diplomacy and development. 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. Prof. Najam is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute
for Sustainable Development (IISD), a Visiting Fellow at the Sustainable
Development Policy Institute (SDPI), and serves on the Boards of the
Pakistan Institute for Environment-Development Action Research (PIEDAR)
and the Center for Global Studies at the Univeristy of Victoria, Canada.
Prof. Adil Najam’s recent books include: Pakistanis in America:
Portrait of a Giving Community (2006); Trade and Environment
Negotiations: A Resource book (2006); Envisioning a Sustainable
Development Agenda for Trade and Environment (2006); Environment,
Development and Human Security: Perspectives from South Asia (2003);
and Civic Entrepreneurship (2002). 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.
A profile of Prof. Adil Najam done by the Boston Globe can be found here.
Professor Najam teaches the following courses:
Current Issues in International Environmental Affairs (IR/GE 794)
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