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Adil Najam | General Klaus Naumann | Michael Naumann | Ton Nijhuis | Farhan Nizami | Helena Norberg-Hodge | Augustus Richard Norton | Jan Novak | Eva Nowotny
Adil Najam
Adil Najam is the Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy at Boston University. He also serves as the Director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment. He 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. Prof. Najam has also taught at MIT, University of Massachusetts and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
Adil Najam’s research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human well-being. He served as a Lead Author for the Third and Fourth Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), work for which the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. (2009)
Boston Globe profiles “Global Citizen” Adil Najam
May 9, 2009
General Klaus Naumann
General Klaus Naumann was Chairman of the North Atlantic Military Committee of NATO from 1996 to 1999. Immediately prior to this position, he served as Chief of Staff, Federal Armed Forces, from 1991 to 1996. Previously, he served as Commanding General of I Corps in Münster. Earlier assignments included Deputy Chief of Staff (Politico-Military Affairs and Operations) and Deputy Chief of Staff (Planning) on the Armed Forces Staff, MOD Bonn.
In addition, he had two Assistant Branch Chief tours in Bonn and an assignment as Executive Officer to the Vice Chief of Staff, Federal Armed Forces, at MOD. He also served on the staff of the German Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee in Brussels, where he was Chief of the Military Policy, Nuclear Strategy, and Arms Control Section.
Among his many publications, General Naumann is the author of the book Die Bundeswehr in einer Welt im Umbruch (The Bundeswehr in a World of Transition).
Among his military awards and decorations, General Naumann has received the Commander’s Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Gold Cross of Honour of the Federal Armed Forces. General Naumann’s military education includes the 13th Army General Staff Officer Training Course at the Federal Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Hamburg, and courses at the Royal College of Defence Studies, London. (2003)
November 11, 2003
Michael Naumann
Michael Naumann is Publisher of Die Zeit and former Minister of Culture and Media (1998-2000) in the government of Gerhard Schroeder. (2005)
November 14-15, 2005
Ton Nijhuis
Since 2001, Ton Nijhuis has been Academic Director of the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, which he joined as a Research Coordinator in 1997. He is Professor of German Studies at the University of Amsterdam; from 1984 to 1997 he was lecturer in Cultural and Science Studies at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences of the University of Maastricht. From 1998 to the present he has been coordinator of an interdisciplinary research project Zivilgesellschaft im Vergleich: Deutschland und die Niederlande 1850-2000 [Civil societies compared: Germany and the Netherlands 1850-2000]. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council for European Studies at the University of Maastricht, a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Centre for German Studies at the University of Nijmegen, and a member of the Conseil scientifique du Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur l’Allemagne [Scientific Council of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Study and Research on Germany], as well as various international historical and sociological associations. (2005)
September 24-25, 2005
Farhan Nizami
Farhan Nizami is the founding Director of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, a world-recognized academic centre of excellence, attracting visiting scholars from all parts of the Muslim world. He is a member of Oxford’s Faculties of Modern History and Oriental Studies and Editor of the Journal of Islamic Studies. Educated at the Aligarh Muslim University and at Wadham College, Oxford, he became a fellow of St. Cross College in 1983 and subsequently a Fellow in Islamic Studies. Upon his move to Magdalen, he was elected to an Emeritus Fellowship at St. Cross. He is currently working on an atlas of Muslim social and intellectual history forthcoming from Oxford University Press. (2005)
April 5, 2005
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Helena Norberg-Hodge is founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC), which runs resistance and renewal programs on four continents aimed at strengthening cultural self-respect and community, local and regional economies, while also encouraging resistance to the global consumer culture. She is the winner of the Right Livelihood award for her devotion in Ladakh where ISEC has worked with local people to find alternatives to conventional development based on the region’s ecological and cultural foundations. She is the author of numerous articles and books including the international classic, Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. (2009)
May 9, 2009
Augustus Richard Norton
Augustus Richard Norton (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is a Professor in the Departments of International Relations and Anthropology at Boston University. He is a contributing editor to Current History, and co-editor (with Dale Eickelman) of the Princeton University Press Muslim Politics series.
His latest publications include “The New Media, Civic Pluralism and the Struggle for Political Reform,” in New Media in the Muslim World The Emerging Public Sphere, Second Edition, Dale Eickelman and Jon Anderson, eds. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004); “Thwarted Politics: The Case of Egypt’s Hizb al-Wasat,” in Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization, Robert Hefner, ed. (Princeton University Press); and, “Middle East Political Reform” with Farhad Kazemi, in the Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decisions 2004 volume.
He headed the Ford Foundation-funded “Civil Society in the Middle East” Program at New York University in the 1990s, which was co-chaired by Farhad Kazemi. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association; and he is also co-founder of the Conference Group on the Middle East, and co-founder, in 2002, of the Action Group of Concerned Middle East Scholars, a group based in Boston and Cambridge.
In 1999-2000 he was Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. He was also named Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Islamic Studies for 1999-2000, where he continues to serve as an Academic Board Member. (2006)
April 5, 2005
March 30, 2006
Jan Novak
Jan Novak is co-author and co-producer of Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation. He was born in Czechoslovakia and emmigrated to the United States at the age of 17.
He was educated at the University of Chicago and has been making his living as a writer. Most recently he was awarded the Czech Republic’s most prestigious prize, the Magnesia Litera, for So Far, So Good, Petrov, the Book of the Year of 2004. He has also won two Sandburg Prizes for Chicago’s Book of the Year (The Willys Dream Kit, 1985, fiction; Commies, Spooks, Gypsies, Crooks & Poets, 1995, non-fiction). Among his other books are a novel, The Grand Life, and the co-authored autobiography of Milos Forman, Turnaround, which was translated into sixteen languages.
His play Ax murder in St. Petersburg was the finalist for the Slovak Play of the Year in 2001 and has been playing in the repertory of Bratislava’s Astorka Theater ever since. (2006)
February 13, 2006
Jan Novak
Jan Novak is co-author and co-producer of Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation. He was born in Czechoslovakia and emmigrated to the United States at the age of 17.
He was educated at the University of Chicago and has been making his living as a writer. Most recently he was awarded the Czech Republic’s most prestigious prize, the Magnesia Litera, for So Far, So Good, Petrov, the Book of the Year of 2004. He has also won two Sandburg Prizes for Chicago’s Book of the Year (The Willys Dream Kit, 1985, fiction; Commies, Spooks, Gypsies, Crooks & Poets, 1995, non-fiction). Among his other books are a novel, The Grand Life, and the co-authored autobiography of Milos Forman, Turnaround, which was translated into sixteen languages.
His play Ax murder in St. Petersburg was the finalist for the Slovak Play of the Year in 2001 and has been playing in the repertory of Bratislava’s Astorka Theater ever since. (2006)
February 13, 2006
Eva Nowotny
Eva Nowotny is the Austrian Ambassador to the United States. Dr. Nowotny served as First Secretary with the Austrian Embassy in Egypt, as Counselor to the Austrian Permanent Mission to the U.N. in New York, as Vice-President of the Special Political Committee of the 36th U.N. General Assembly, as Foreign Policy Adviser to Chancellor Vranitzky, and as Director General of European Integration and Economic Affairs at the Austrian Foreign Ministry. She was Austria’s Ambassador to France and the UK. (2005)