Najam Chairs South Asian Network of Environmental Economists
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, who is the current Chair of the South Asian Network for Development and Environment Economics – SANDEE, led a meeting of the SANDEE’s Management and Advisory Committee held at Kathmandu, Nepal, on December 12, 2016.
The meeting brought together the management team and leadership of the network, including major donor representatives who have supported the network’s activities. Future directions and opportunities for the network were the main agenda issues.
Najam also announced that at the end of his term he would be stepping down as Chair of SANDEE. Renowned environmental economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, the Frank Ramsey Professor in Economics at Cambridge University, was elected as the new Chair. Najam thanked the SANDEE community for their great efforts to advance quality research in development and environmental economics in South Asia. He expressed confidence that the future will bring more success for the network.
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.