Pardee Center Mourns the Passing of Visiting Fellow Pablo Suarez

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future mourns the unexpected passing of Pablo Suarez, a long-time Visiting Research Fellow, collaborator, and friend.

For more than 15 years, Pablo frequently and generously shared his magnetic personality and infectious energy with the Pardee Center community, particularly with the Center’s Graduate Summer Fellows each year. In 2012, he chaired the Pardee Center Task Force on Games for a New Climate, which culminated in a research report exploring ways in which participatory games can be used to better understand decision-making in the face of a complex and uncertain future. He was an innovative thinker who brought a unique mix of creativity and humor to his work on risk communication, climate change, development, and humanitarianism.

“I first got to know Pablo when I was a young professor at BU and he was a not-so-young graduate student taking my class on global (South) environmental policy,” said Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus of Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies and former Director of the Pardee Center. “From student, he soon became friend, then colleague, and then, as our journeys progressed, an inspiration.”

In addition to his work with the Pardee Center, Pablo was affiliated with BU’s Institute for Global Sustainability, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, the University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and the National University of Singapore’s Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk, among others. He advised international humanitarian and development organizations in more than 60 countries.

Pablo’s kindness, creativity, humor, and compassion will be deeply missed.