A small working group of development and climate experts met at the Pardee Center to scope a potential agenda for action-research around making development a more central theme of forthcoming global climate change talks.
Cynthia Barakatt joins the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as the part-time “communication specialist.”
Nick Dragger, head of the Health and Development Department of the World Health Organization (WHO), visited the Pardee Center to hold an informal discussion session on future initiatives on global health diplomacy.
Pardee Center Director attends Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA) meeting to discuss emerging agenda for the upcoming G-8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit, to be hosted by Japan later this summer.
Pardee Center Director Adil Najam, who was on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, spoke at various events related to current debates on climate change.
Prof. Adil Najam was widely quoted in media stories related to the recent assassination of Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and its political outfall on the future of Pakistan and the region.
International development and diplomacy expert and member of Nobel Prize-winning IPCC team of scientists, Adil Najam, who taught at Boston University from 1997 to 2003, returns to the University this fall as the new director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The center also will receive new resources […]