Join the College of Communication and Information’s South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference, the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy’s Ruth K. & Shepard Broad International Lecture Series and The Center for Global Engagement’s Engage Your World Speaker Series for an Engage Your World event. It will take place on Friday, February 2 with the reception at 5 p.m. and the lecture at 5:30 p.m. in The Globe Auditorium.

Dr. Adil Najam is President of the WWF, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (formerly the World Wildlife Fund), one of the world’s oldest, largest, and most respected environmental and conservation organizations. 

Dr. Adil Najam is also Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations and Earth and the Environment at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He served as the founding Dean of the Pardee School (2014-2022) and was awarded Dean Emeritus status by Boston University in 2022, while continuing as a Professor at the Pardee School. In addition to Boston University, he was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Wolfson College in 2022-23 and was named the first De Janosi Fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria for 2023-24. He is also the Mahathir Mohamad Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) where he leads research on Islam and the Environment.

For the full SAMCS Conference Schedule: bit.ly/samcs24

This event also counts toward one of the intercultural event requirements for the Global Citizenship Certificate.