Najam named De Jánosi Visiting Fellow at IIASA
Dr. Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations and of Earth and Environment at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston Univeristy and incoming President of WWF-International, has been named as the inaugural Peter De Jánosi Visiting Fellow for 2023 at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), based in Laxenburg, Austria, located right outside Vienna.
Friends of IIASA (FoI), which helped create this new Visiting Fellowship announced that Dr. Adil Najam will be the first holder of the Peter De Jánosi Fellowship, which aims to encourage greater links between leading U.S. based scholars, to advance more American participation in IIASA’s global research programs, and to support extended research visits by De Jánosi Visiting Fellows to IIASA for exchanges with IIASA-based researchers.
Najam, who had first interacted with IIASA in 1994 as a participant in its Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) whilst a graduate student at MIT, said that he was honored and delighted to be named the first De Jánosi Visiting Fellow because, “it allows me to continue a long and enduring relationship with IIASA which has not only included research interactions over nearly 30 years, spending a summer as a YSSP doctoral student, but also serving on its Council.” Earlier, Najam as already awarded the status of ‘Honorary Scholar’ at IIASA for “exemplary dedication to the Institute’s ideals and distinguished scholarly achievement.”
During his current stay at the Institute, Najam is being hosted by the office of the IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld and has been meeting with IIASA researchers and scholars, including visiting summer scholars to advance common research interests. He will be conducting a special workshop on “The Art of Negotiating Science Policy” for current YSSP doctoral scholars at IIASA on Monday, June 26, 2023.
Dr. Peter De Jánosi, in whose honor the visiting fellowship has been created, was a critical force in the development of and support for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) from its founding in 1972 through the end of his six-year term as IIASA Director in 1996. As Director, he guided IIASA’s transition from its role as a bridge between East and West during the Cold War to an international research organization addressing the global problems confronting nations, both North and South. Friends of IIASA (FOI) is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization to support the research and policy mission of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. It operates in partnership with IIASA leadership and with the U.S. Committee for IIASA at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Adil Najam first joined Boston University’s then department of International Relations in 1997 and served as the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies from 2014-2022. He is also a former Vice-Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to global climate change, South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human development. Read more about Professor Najam on his Pardee School faculty profile.