Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (1991 to date)
Candidate for Doctor of Philosophy,
Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Focus on international environmental policy and international treaty-making for sustainable development. Apart from regular literature analysis and case studies I am using the MIT Chlorine Game as a tool to research the behavior of developing countries in International Environmental Policymaking.[GPA 5.0/5.0] Master of Science, Technology and Policy Program. Focus on international environmental policy for sustainable development. [GPA 5.0/5.0]
Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA, USA (1992-94)
Specialization in Negotiation. Focus: International environmental negotiation and dispute resolution. [GPA 4.0/4.0]
Graduate Research Fellow. Focus: North-South environmental negotiation, 1995-96
Harvard University/ Tufts University,
Cambridge/Medford, MA, USA (Summer 1992)
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. (1984-89)
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. Coursework included: Theory of Structures, Strength of Materials, Construction
Management, Fluid Dynamics, Hydraulics, Public Health Engineering. Bachelors Thesis: Computer Aided Analysis, Design & Drafting for Commercial Complex. (Top 3% of class).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (1994 to date)
Instructor for undergraduate course (11.011) The Art and Science of Negotiation (Fall `94, '95, '96). Responsible for all aspects of teaching the course including syllabus (re)design. Instructor for Writing Practicum (21W.781) Practicum in Engineering and Science Writing (Spring '97) attached to the chemical engineering projects course, Chemical Engineering Projects Laboratory (10.26). . University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA, USA (1997 to date)
Visiting Lecturer for graduate course (DisRes 600) Negotiation (Spring '97) for those taking the UMass Graduate Certificate Program in Dispute Resolution. Responsible for all aspects of teaching the course including syllabus design. School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT, USA (1993-94)
As Visiting Lecturer, taught a set of undergraduate core-courses in Environmental Studies: Local and Global Environmental Issues
(Fall `93) and International Environmental Policy and Politics (Spring `94). Also
co-taught and co-designed a graduate course on Issues in Sustainable
Development (Fall `93). Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA (1992-93)
Teaching Assistant for semester-length seminars on Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (Fall 1992) and on Mediation and Dispute Resolution (Spring 1993) aimed at mid-career professionals.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA (since 1991)
Associate Director, MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program (since Fall 1993). Administrator, International Environmental Negotiation Network (IENN) and Associate Editor, "Concordare," the IENN
newsletter, which has a readership of 10,000 in over 50 countries. World Conservation Union (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland (since 1994)
As Consultant have been working as a member of the international advisory team working on a project that seeks to develop an approach to monitoring and assessing progress towards sustainability. The approach being developed is being tested through field projects in Columbia, Zambia and India. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria (1994)
Summer Research Associate in the "Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments Project." Research focused on environmental compliance in developing countries. Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA, USA (1993)
Research Intern focusing on environment-population-development interactions. Assisted in a synthesis position paper on the subject and wrote a briefing paper on environment and development. Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, USA (1993)
Research Assistant for literature search on cost effectiveness methodologies for life-saving programs. Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (1992)
Research Assistant/Staff Researcher. Focused on the engineering and ecological life-cycle analysis of industrial use of poly vinyl chloride (PVC). Part of MIT team conducting a multi-disciplinary study on the industrial ecology of chlorine. Researched and co-authored a policy paper highlighting the environmental and economic implications of influencing global PVC use patterns. Esquel Foundation, Brasilia/Fortaleza, Brazil (1992)
Consultant and Research Assistant for the International Conference on Sustainable Development held at Fortaleza, Brazil. U.S. Agency for International Development (US AID), Islamabad, Pakistan (1991)
Environmental Consultant and Technical Advisor. Provided script outline, technical information, environmental framework and review for major TV docu-drama on Pakistan's environmental problems. Pakistan National Conservation Strategy Secretariat / World Conservation Union (IUCN) , Islamabad, Pakistan (1989-1991)
As Communication Officer worked on the preparation of the Pakistan National Conservation Strategy (PNCS), a major cross-sectoral national policy review for sustainable development which has now been adopted by the government of Pakistan as its official environmental policy.
Authored the PNCS Strategy for Environmental Communication.
Devised and implemented a communication strategy for sustainable development, inter-acted with international/donor agencies, assisted in research, costing and documentation of PNCS and drafted chapters on Environmental Education, Legislation, Institutional Development and Communication. On the panel of authors of the National Report on Environment and Development, submitted by the government of Pakistan to the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). Media Affiliations (On-going)
Press: Since 1979, free-lance columnist/reporter for major Pakistani periodicals, including The Muslim and The Nation. Occasional columnist for The Earth Times (New York) and Down to Earth (India). Radio: Public radio presentor of series on sports, science, environment, and development, 1983-1991. Television: Presentor of national television series on environment and development (1989); host of major personality talk-show (1989-90); anchored special shows on education, sports and current affairs. Nominated as a Fellow of the MIT Graduate Society of Fellows for Sustainability, 1996-97. Graduate Research Fellow at the Program on Negotiation at
Harvard Law School for 1995-96.
Participated at the 1995 Summer Session of the Aspen Global Change Institute, on Effective Implementation of International Environmental Committments.
John D. Rockefeller 3rd Research Fellow at the Program on Non-Profit Organizations (PONPO) at Yale University, New Haven, CT (Summer 1995).
Awarded the 1995-96 Pre-Dissertation Fellowship of the Academic Council of the United Nations System (ACUNS).
Elected to Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society of North America, 1993.
Contributing Editor, The Earth Times (New York), 1995.
Student representative to M.I.T.'s Department of Urban Studies and Planning Ph.D. committee.
Awarded the M.I.T. Voorhees Scholarship Award, 1993-1995.
Awarded a United Nations Fellowship Award, 1991-1993.
Speakers program of Coolidge Center, Union of Concerned Scientists, & Boston World Affairs Council.
Fulbright/US State Department Award to study "Grassroots Democracy in USA", April-May 1991.
Awarded the Pakistan Television Medallion for Outstanding Achievement, 1989.
Awarded the Townsend Poetry Prize (United States Information Service), 1988.
University Debating Color, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, 1987.
Awarded the National Quaid-i-Azam Merit Scholarship, 1984-89.
Islamabad College for Boys: General Secretary, Students Council; Editor College Magazine; Captain, debating team; All-round Best Student Award. 1980-82.
Pakistan National Youth Delegate at International Youth Conference in Turkey, 1979.
Office Bearer of Rotaract Club of Islamabad, Islamabad Cricket Association, Federal Organization of Road Cycling Enthusiasts (FORCE) and YUTECH (Youth for Technology). (In Pakistan).
Member Pakistan Engineering Council; American Society of Civil Engineers; Pakistan Institute of Environment-Development Action Research; Academic Council of the United Nations System; Society of Environmental Journalists (USA). Countries visited: Pakistan, Turkey, India, USA, Brazil, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ireland, United Kingdom, Columbia, Zimbabwe, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Nepal.
Edited Volumes
Lawrence E. Susskind, William R. Moomaw, and Adil Najam (eds.). 1994. Papers on International Environmental Negotiations (Vol. IV). Cambridge, Mass.: Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School.
Lawrence E. Susskind, William R. Moomaw, and Adil Najam (Eds.). 1993. Papers on International Environmental Negotiations (Vol. III). Cambridge, Mass.: Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School.
Adil Najam (ed.). 1988. You Said It! Lahore, Pakistan: Books + Books Publishers.
Adil Najam (ed.). 1984. Pakistan: Our Identity. Islamabad, Pakistan: GOY Publications. Chapters in Books
Jesse C. Ribot with Adil Najam and Gabrielle Watson. 1996. "Impacts of Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Semiarid Regions." In Climate Variability, Climate Change and Social Vulnerability edited by Ribot et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Adil Najam. 1993. "International Environmental Negotiation: A Strategy for the South." In Papers on International Environmental Negotiation, (Vol. III), edited by Lawrence E. Susskind, William R. Moomaw, and Adil Najam. Cambridge, Mass.: Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School.
Adil Najam. 1984. "The Brain Drain Sabotage." In Pakistan: Our Identity, edited by Adil Najam. Islamabad, Pakistan: GOY Publications. Papers in Refereed Journals
Adil Najam. 1996. "Understanding the Third Sector: Revisiting the Prince, the Merchant, and the Citizen." Nonprofit Management and Leadership 7(2).
Adil Najam. 1996. "NGO Accountability: A Conceptual Framework." Development Policy Review.
Adil Najam. 1996. "A Developing Countries' Perspective on Population, Environment and Development", Population Research and Policy Review. 15(1): 1-19. Adil Najam. 1995. "International Environmental Negotiation: A Strategy for the South", International Environmental Affairs, 7(2).
Adil Najam. 1994. "The South in International Environmental Negotiations", International Studies, Oct.-Dec. issue.
Adil Najam. 1994. "Predictions for Cairo: A Reaffirmation, a Reversal, a Realignment, and a Refusal" , Environmental Conservation, 21(2): 105-9. Professional Publications
Adil Najam. 1996. Nongovernmental Organizations as Policy Entrepreneurs: In Pursuit of Sustainable Development." PONPO Working Paper No. 231. New Haven, CT: Program on Nonprofit Organizations, Yale University.
Adil Najam. 1995. "Environmental Implementation in Developing Countries." In Elements of Change 1995. Aspen, CO: Aspen Global Change Institute.
Adil Najam. 1995. Communicating Sustainability. Karachi, Pakistan: Environment & Urban Affairs Division, Government of Pakistan [and] IUCN, The World Conservation Union.
Adil Najam. 1994. The Case for a South Secretariat in International Environmental Negotiation. Working Paper Series 94-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School.
Adil Najam with Michael Brower. 1994. Poverty, Development, and the Environment. UCS Briefing Paper. Cambridge, Mass.: Union of Concerned Scientists.
Frank Field and Adil Najam. 1993. Industrial Ecology of Chlorine: PVC, A Case-Study for understanding Materials Substitution. Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Technology Policy & Industrial Development, MIT.
Adil Najam. 1989. Communicating Conservation: A Prescriptive Study. Islamabad, Pakistan: Pakistan National Conservation Strategy Secretariat, Government of Pakistan. Some Recent Essays in Environment-related Periodicals
Adil Najam. 1997. "Global Negotiation in the Face of Uncertain Science." Negotiation-Newsletter of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Winter 1996-97.
Adil Najam. 1995. "Slouching toward Denmark. What's new?" Earth Times, VIII(4), Feb. 28-March 5.
Adil Najam. 1994. "Environment in the Age of the Information Highway," Concordare, (7): 1; Summer.
Adil Najam. 1994. "And miles to go before we meet," The Way Ahead: Pakistan's Environment and Development Quarterly, 1(1): 32; June.
Adil Najam. 1994. "1993: The year of ecobabble," Down to Earth, 2(19): 53; Feb. 28.
Adil Najam. 1993. "1993: Lots of talk, but little action. What's new?" Earth Times, V(38): 16; Dec. 31.
Adil Najam. 1993. "And miles to go before we meet", Down to Earth, 2(15): 45-6; Dec. 31.
Adil Najam. 1993. "Tomorrow's fine, but what about today?" Earth Times, V(37): 29; Dec. 9.
Adil Najam. 1993. "Keeping a finger on the pulse of the world," Concordare, (5): 8; Fall.
Adil Najam. 1993. "Boardroom Callings: Making friends with the Earth," Earth Times, V(35): 21; Nov. 5.
Adil Najam. 1993. "Third World matters: Redefining the South," Earth Times, V(28): 11; Aug. 30.
Adil Najam. 1993. "An identity crisis for the South," Down to Earth, 2(6): 47-8; Aug. 15.