Najam Elected Chair of South Asian Network of Environmental Economists
Prof. Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was elected the new Chair of the South Asian Network for Development and Environment Economics – SANDEE. Prof. Najam was elected by the Management Advisory Committee of SANDEE at its recent meeting held at Kathmandu, Nepal, on Dec. 13-14.
SANDEE is a regional network that uses economic tools and analyses to address South Asia’s environmental challenges. It is based on the premise that solutions to economic development concerns and environmental problems are integrally linked. Its main goal is to build the professional skills required to enable South Asians to address local and global environmental concerns. SANDEE works in seven countries in South Asia – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. SANDEE was launched in November 1999 and is hosted by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal. SANDEE was previously based at IUCN-the World Conservation Union, Nepal.
Dean Adil Najam, who is a globally recognized scholar of international environmental governance and of climate change policy in developing countries, succeeds Prof. Madhu Khanna, a Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The founding Chair of SANDEE was renowned environmental economist Partha Dasgupta, the Frank Ramsey Professor in Economics at Cambridge University.