Gallagher and Najam Discuss COVID-19 with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister
Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy and Director of the Global Development Policy Center at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and Adil Najam, Dean of the Pardee School and Professor of International Relations and Earth and Environment, spoke with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi about the cornoavirus pandemic on Friday, May 8, 2020.
Gallagher and Najam we joined by Dr. William Ury of Harvard University and Professor Kishore Mahbubani of the National University of Singapore for the inaugural FM Connect Digital: The Thought Leaders series.
Participants discussed post COVID-19 realities in the global geopolitical and socio-economic landscape. More specifically, Gallagher discussed the global economic impact of COVID-19 while Najam talked about the shifting global geopolitical balance as well as the outlook for U.S.-China relations following the pandemic.
Articles on the FM Connect Digital discussion can be found in The Daily Times, The Express Tribune, Pakistan Today, and UrduPoint.
Kevin Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he directs the Global Development Policy Center. He is author or co-author of six books, including most recently, The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus. Read more about him here.
Adil Najam is the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and was the former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Currently, he is hosting a video expert interview series called #WorldAfterCorona for the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Read more about him here.