Najam Speaks at AKU on “The Day After COVID”

Prof. Adil Najam, Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was invited by the Aga Khan University (AKU) network to speak virtually in its ‘Reimagining Our Future’ series. In a talk webcast live to a large international audience on April 14, 2020, Najam spoke on “Preparing for the Day after COVID: What the Future Holds.” The event attracted a large online audience, especially in South Asia and East Africa, where the AKU has medical campuses, and included a lively Q&A session with the audience.

Najam’s talk informed by the #WorldAfterCorona video series of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, an affiliate center of the Pardee School of Global Studies, that he has been moderating. He focused on the possible political, economic and social changes that the global coronavirus pandemic could trigger, but concluded that the exact “nature and extent of these changes will be determined by us and our individual actions.” He argued that while we are “already living in the world after COVID, we are also living is truly historic times when our own actions could be influencing potentially historic shifts.”

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Najam presented arguments similar to the ones he had presented in a recent OpEd contribution.

Adil Najam is the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and was the former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Read more about him here.