Adil Najam 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.
15 Facts About Adil Najam
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Since 2023, Adil Najam serves as the global President of WWF International.
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In 2022, Adil Najam stepped down after eight years as the founding Dean of the Boston University Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies.
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In 2011, Najam returned to Pakistan to head the Lahore University of Management Sciences as its third vice-chancellor.
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Adil Najam left LUMS in June 2013, and returned to Boston University.
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Adil Najam is a senior fellow of the International Institute for Sustainable Development.
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Adil Najam has served as the Chair of the Boards of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, of LEAD-Pakistan, and of the Luc Hoffmann Institute.
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Adil Najam serves as a trustee on the international board of the World Wide Fund for Nature and on the board of The Asia Foundation.
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Adil Najam was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the Information Technology University in Lahore, Pakistan, in 2017, for his contributions in science, climate change, and sustainable development.
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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.
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Adil Najam served as a lead author for the third and fourth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Adil Najam 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.
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Early in his career, Adil Najam worked as a journalist for various newspapers and magazines in Pakistan.
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Adil Najam has contributed to newspapers in Pakistan and in the international press.
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In 2007, Adil Najam launched the blog "All Things Pakistan " which won the Brass Crescent Award for the best South Asian blog in 2010 and was judged the best current affairs blog by the Pakistan Blog Awards 2010.