Najam in Bloomberg on Corporate America and Climate Change
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent article examining how United States corporations have been taking action on controversial social and political issues such as gun control and climate change.
Najam was interviewed for a March 1, 2018 article in Bloomberg entitled “Corporate America Is Taking On Guns and Climate—Issues the Government Won’t.“
From the text of the article:
That effectively outsources the political process, said Adil Najam, dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, with a perverse effect on national policy and the fundamentals of democracy: “When a company makes the decision, those first three words of the Constitution, ‘We the People,’ are replaced by ‘We the Customer.”
Adil Najam is the Inaugural Dean of the Pardee School. Earlier, he served as Vice Chancellor (equivalent to president) of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan. He was a co-author for the Third and Fourth Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and serves on the UN Committee on Development (CDP). Learn more about him here.