Professor Adil Najam has been President of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International since July 2023. He is also Dean Emeritus of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, where he is Professor of International Relations and Earth and Environment. 

He served as founding Dean of the Pardee School from 2014 to 2022 and as Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is Mahathir Mohamad Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Professor Najam was a co-author of two Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 2010 and the Hilal-i-Imtiaz in 2023. He has served on the boards of The Asia Foundation and the Luc Hoffmann Institute. 

His expertise includes international negotiation, sustainable development, environmental justice, and the politics of South Asia and the Muslim world. He has written over 100 papers and book chapters. He holds a BSc from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, and two Master’s degrees and a PhD in Environmental Policy from MIT, USA.