Najam in WSJ on Challenges Facing New UN Secretary General
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on the numerous global crises and flash points facing new United Nations Security-General Antonio Guterres.
Najam was interviewed for a December 13, 2016 video on the Wall Street Journal entitled “New UN Secretary-General Faces Harrowing Challenges.”
You can watch the entire video below:
You can also watch the video through the Wall Street Journal here.
Najam previously published in The Conversation arguing that while the choice of António Guterres as the next secretary-general of the United Nations is a good one, the process by which it was made remains seriously flawed.
Adil Najam is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School and was a former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore Pakistan. He had started his career as a newspaper reporter in his native Pakistan, including covering the 1988 election campaign of Benazir Bhutto that ended with her becoming Pakistan’s first female Prime Minister. Part of his research has focussed on Muslim and Pakistani diaspora in the United States. He is the author of Pakistanis in America: Portrait of a Giving Community (Harvard University Press, 2006) and co-editor of How Immigrants Impact their Homelands (Duke University Press, 2013). Learn more about him here.