Interview with Adil Najam, Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University

Prof. Adil Najam is the Inaugural Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. In the past he has served as the Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Studies (LUMS) in Pakistan, as professor of negotiation and diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and as Director of the Boston University Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and taught at MIT and at the Harvard Program on Negotiation.

Author of over 100 scholarly papers and author or editor of over a dozen books, Dr. Najam was a lead author for the third and fourth assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), work for which the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. His areas of specialization include global climate change and sustainable development; human development and human security; and international environmental negotiations.

Prof. Najam was one of the best ranked speakers at the XIII Summer School for Young Diplomats “Gavro Vuković” discussing climate diplomacy at the age of adaptation. On this occasion Prva TV had interview with Prof. Najam focusing on his project work about the world after the Covid-19.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in these interview are those of the individuals involved and do not reflect official policy or position of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro and its Diplomatic Academy.