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Analysis for a better tomorrow, today.

The Pardee Center is defined by ourpeople, our research, our publications andthrough the dialogues and events weconvene. The three pillars of our work are:

RESEARCH: We promote intellectualinquiry and scholarly discourse in thepursuit of knowledge and policy options toaddress longer-range challenges to humanwell-being.

EDUCATION: We cultivate a newgeneration of scholars working oninterdisciplinary, policy-relevant andfuture-oriented research that improves the human condition globally.

OUTREACH: We connect knowledge andpractice, helping to transform scholarlyinsights into practical policies and action.

What We DoProf. Adil Najam is the Center’s Director and theFrederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy.He also serves as a Professor of InternationalRelations and of Geography and Environment. He succeeds eminent historian Prof. David Fromkin,the Center’s first Director.

Prof. Najam is a winner of the MIT Goodwin Medalfor Effective Teaching and the Fletcher School ofLaw and Diplomacy Paddock Teaching Award fromTufts University. A prolific researcher who haspublished on many issues, Prof. Najam was a LeadAuthor of the Third and Fourth Assessments of theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),work for which the IPCC was awarded the 2007 NobelPeace Prize.

In 2008, the United Nations Secretary-Generalselected Prof. Najam to serve on the Committee onDevelopment Policy, and in 2009 the President ofPakistan conferred upon him the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan’s highest civil awards.

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Professor Adil Najam, Director

Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, discussingresearch with Summer Fellow Peter McGuire

Research Fellow Julius Gatune Kariukiat Pardee Conference on Africa 2060

Research Fellow Miquel Muñoz Cabré at the United Nations

Summer Fellow Naoko Nakagawa at Pardee House

Research and Publications What current trends in Africa could positively influence thecontinent’s future?

What impacts do migrants have on the homelands they leave behind?

How is the relationship between energy and society changing?

How can we better structure regional trade agreements?

What policies will lead us toward sustainable development andhuman well-being in a globalized world?

These are just a few of the questions that drive our research. Withour publications—targeted to policy-makers, other scholars andinterested citizens—we strive to provide answers.

Pardee Center researchers have published papers in scholarlyjournals including Nature, the IDS Bulletin, Global EnvironmentalPolitics and Third World Quarterly; book chapters in compilationspublished by leading academic publishers; and have producededited collections based on Pardee Center conferences.

Pardee Center researchers also contribute policy analysis to leadingglobal think tanks and they are quoted often in the internationalmedia, including on National Public Radio, BBC, PBS, e BostonGlobe, e New York Times, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and others.

The Pardee Center’s own growing publications program is at thecore of our mission to generate interdisciplinary, policy-relevantresearch that examines potential paths to the future. Written by theCenter’s Fellows and other invited authors, our papers are reviewedby outside experts and are available electronically and withoutcharge through the Center’s website. Our publications include ThePardee Papers (working research papers), Issues in Brief (short policypapers on a broad range of issues), Sustainable Development Insights(policy briefs edited and published at the Pardee Center on behalfof the United Nations Sustainable Development KnowledgePartnership) and occasional Pardee Task Force Reports andconference proceedings.

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Ideas are the most important investment we can makein our future. And ideas come from people.

From the start, the Pardee Center has sought thecompany of some of the most inspiring minds of ourtimes. Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Senpresented a series of Distinguished Lectures as theinaugural Pardee Visiting Professor. Those who havefollowed have included Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann, noted economist Paul Streeten, visionaryphysicist Freeman Dyson, Britain’s Astronomer RoyalLord Martin Rees, eminent demographer Joel E.Cohen, Kyoto Prize-winning biologist Simon Levin,and development economist Jeni Klugman.

The Pardee Center derives its intellectual energy fromthe Boston University community, with activities andresearch initiatives led by BU faculty, graduate studentsand post-docs, as well as Visiting Fellows.

The Pardee Center actively encourages studentparticipation in conferences and seminars andin the Center’s research initiatives. A centerpieceof our annual calendar is the Summer GraduateFellows Program, which draws some of the bestgraduate students from all schools and departments of the university for a 10-week, intensive andinterdisciplinary program of research and writing.

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From the start, the Pardee Center hassought the company of inspiring minds.

People and Ideas Amartya Sen, PardeeVisiting Professor 2001–02

Jeni Klugman, PardeeDistinguished Lecture, 2010

Murray Gell-Mann, PardeeVisiting Professor, 2004–05

Pardee Center SummerFellows, 2009

Conversations designed to improve our shared tomorrow.

e Pardee Center at Boston Universitytakes pride in the conversations itconvenes. We seek to be a welcominghub of globally informed, conceptuallythoughtful, analytically rooted andpolicy-focused conversation amongleading experts from around the worldand across disciplines.

Pardee Center conferences are designedto tackle the great questions of ourtimes, always with an eye on improvingour shared tomorrow. From the futuresof Africa, China and South Asia to theconnections between economicdevelopment, human development andhappiness, the Center’s conferencesseek out ideas that can informdecisions and help shape the future.

The intimate setting of Pardee HouseSeminars invites open debate amongpresenters and the audience as they

discuss multiple perspectives on issuesof current concern and of futureconsequence. Research workshopsprovide a platform for more focusedand in-depth expert deliberations,often leading to published outputs.Occasional Distinguished Lectures bywell-known scholars and practitionersmove the conversation to broaderaudiences from across BostonUniversity and beyond.

In the spirit ofcollaboration, manyPardee Center eventsare conducted inpartnership with otherresearch institutionsacross BostonUniversity and fromaround the world.Videos of most PardeeCenter events areavailable on theCenter’s website.

The Pardee Center hosts faculty dialogue onDisasters and ComplexEmergencies, 2010

Dialogue and Debate More at: www.bu.edu/pardee/news

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Inspired by the vision of its benefactor, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for theStudy of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University was established in 2000 to identify, anticipate and enhance the long-term potential for human progress,globally and in all its dimensions.

Mr. Pardee received his Bachelor and Master degrees from Boston University andpursued his passion for analyzing trends for the future as a systems analyst and aneconomic forecaster. In recognition of his intellectual contributions to futuresresearch and human well-being, Boston University dedicated an historicbrownstone at 67 Bay State Road as Pardee House (which serves as the Center’shome) in 2000, and in 2006 awarded Mr. Pardee an Honorary Doctorate.

e Pardee Center works with Boston University students and faculty from alldepartments and schools, and partners with eminent experts, think tanks andresearch institutions around the world in fulfilling its mandate.

e Center’s work is motivated by Mr. Pardee’s global sensibility and his dedicationto the creation of better futures for all of humanity. Our work is grounded in therealization that while many of the greatest challenges faced by humanity are long-term, today’s decision-makers and knowledge-producers often operate in short-termtimeframes. Seeking to redress this imbalance, the Pardee Center convenes andconducts interdisciplinary, policy-relevant and future-oriented research that cancontribute to lasting improvements in the human condition.

Identifying, anticipating and enhancing the long-term potential for human progress.

Frederick S. Pardee