Najam Delivers Keynote at EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2025
Professor Adil Najam recently gave a keynote address titled “Food: Nature’s Greatest Gift” at the EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2025 and also attended the launch of the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission Report. During his speech, the professor spoke about a just and sustainable diet for a healthy planet and healthy people.
Najam described food as one of nature’s greatest gifts to all species, including humanity. He presented a “love letter to food, from nature” that began by asserting that food is beautiful when it comes from nature. He concluded his speech by appealing to the audience to assume the collective responsibility to nurture food as humanity’s direct link to nature — something we engage with three or more times a day — rather than turning food production into a threat to nature.
Adil Najam is the dean emeritus at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and the professor of international relations and of earth and environment. An authority on climate action and South Asian politics, he has taught at MIT and Tufts University and is currently serving as the president of WWF International. He was a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford’s Wolfson College and was named the first De Janosi Fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. A prolific writer, Najam has authored more than 100 academic papers and published eight books including South Asia 2060: Envisioning Regional Futures (2013) and How Immigrants Impact their Homelands (2013). To know more about his work and accomplishments, visit his faculty profile.