Prof. Najam Speaks at DIHE Convocation

Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future and Boston University Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment, was the Guest of Honor and featured speaker at the third annual convocation and graduation ceremony of the Dadabhoy Institute of Higher Education (DIHE), Karachi, Pakistan, on December 22, 2010.

Prof. Adil Najam at the Graduation Ceremony of the Dadabhoy Institute of Higher Education.
Prof. Adil Najam at the Graduation Ceremony of the Dadabhoy Institute of Higher Education.

The chief guest at the event was Pakistan’s Minister for Overseas Pakistanis, Dr. Farooq Sattar. Other speakers at the ceremony included: Sindh Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq, Sindh Finance Minister Murad Ali Shah, Chief Minister’s Economic Advisor Dr. Qaiser Bengali, and Deputy Governor of the State bank of Pakistan Yasin Anwar. In his remarks to the graduating class, Prof. Adil Najam stressed that they will be working in a global environment and therefore needed to both think and act globally and understand trends that are truly global in scope and scale.