Adil Najam
Pakistani climate change scholar (born 1965)
Adil Najam (Urdu: عادل نجم) is a Pakistani academic who also serves as the global President of WWF, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (starting July 2023), and is Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations and Earth and Environment at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He was the founding Dean of the Pardee School from its creation in 2014 until 2022, when he was awarded the status of Dean Emeritus by Boston University.2
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Born 2000.1
About
Previously he had served as vice-chancellor of the LUMS in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Companies
- WWF InternationalChair Jul 2023 to now11
Early life and education
- Date not recordedMassachusetts Institute of Technology3
Career
Occupation: professor.6
- Since 2023Chair, WWF International5
- Date not recordedWorked at Boston University4
- Date not recordedWorked at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy4
Scholarly work
Adil Najam promotes the idea of living in the "Age of Adaptation" and conceptualizing water as being as important to climate adaptation as carbon was to mitigation.
"Water is to adaptation what carbon is to mitigation."
Najam served as a lead author for the third and fourth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for its contributions to advancing the understanding of global climate change.
His books include How Immigrants Impact their Homelands (co-editor, 2013), "The Future of South-South Economic Relations" (co-editor, 2012), "Envisioning a Sustainable Development Agenda for Trade and Environment" (co-editor, 2007), "Portrait of a Giving Community" (2007), "Environment, Development and Human Security" (editor, 2003), and "Civic Entrepreneurship" (co-author, 2002).
He was the lead author for the 2018 Pakistan National Human Development Report, which focused on the topic of youth and included a first comprehensive district-by-district ranking in a national Human Development Index for Pakistan. The report and the district HDI index became a matter of much election campaign discussion during the 2018 Pakistani general election.
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Personal life
Awards
- Date not recordedSitara-i-Imtiaz10
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataAdil Najam on Wikidata
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- 10WikidataAdil Najam: award, on Wikidata
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