2010 Program: Adil Najam

2010 Bernstein Forum

            Climate Change, Development and Human Security

Adil Najam was the featured speaker

on May 6, 2010

 Ludke Auditorium, University of New England, Portland Campus

"Global citizen Adil Najam has gone from sharing a Nobel Peace Price to starting a blog where Pakistanis can share views peacefully."    Boston Globe Moderator, February 18, 2008

             Adil Najam came to the US from Pakistan eighteen years ago to pursue an engineering degree at MIT.  He left behind a very successful career as a national environmental expert, having been tapped by the Pakistani government to help draft the country's first national environmental policy.  Currently, Adil Najam is Director of Boston University's Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.  He studies high profile issues like the war on terror and global warming, but also less-covered subjects like senior care in poor countries and new trends in philanthrophy.  In 2007, he shared in the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore and to scientists on an international climate change council.  A multifaceted person with a global perspective, Najam hosts a popular web blog (10,000 hits daily) encouraging dialogue among Pakistanis (www.Pakistaniat.com) and he is often sought out by national news organizations such as NPR and CNN for his expertise on the Muslim world.