Adil Najam

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. He was on the Advisory Board of the 2011 UNDP Human Development Report and was Lead Author for the 2017 Pakistan Human Development Report.

Prof. Najam holds two Masters and a PhD from the MIT, a Specialization in Negotiation from Harvard Law School, a civil engineering degree from UET Lahore, and one honorary doctorate. Dr. Najam was elected Trustee on the Board of WWF-International and of The Asia Foundation, chairs the Board of the Luc Hoffmann Institute in Geneva, has been a Council Member of IIASA in Vienna, was the Board Chair of the South Asia Network of Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), served on the Academic Council of the South Asia University in New Delhi, and was former Chair of LEAD-Pakistan.

He has been awarded Pakistan’s highest civil awards, the Sitra-i-Imtiaz, in 2009 and is a past winner of MIT’s Goodwin Medal for Effective Teaching, the Fletcher School Paddock Teaching Award, and the Stein Rokan Award of the International Political Science Association. In 2019 he was appointed by the Prime Minister of Pakistan on his Advisory Council on Foreign Policy.