Awards
In 2009 Najam was awarded the civil award the Sitara-i-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan for his services to education and the environment. In 2008 Najam was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP) which advises the UN ECOSOC on development priorities and is also responsible for periodic reviews of the UN’s list of Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Leading development thinkers like Ester Boserup, Gamani Corea, Hernando de Soto, Mahbub ul Haq, Sir Richard Jolly, Robert McNamara, Sir Shridath Ramphal, Klaus Schwab, and Nobel winning economist Jan Tinbergen have served on the CDP in the past. Najam was also one of the Lead Authors of the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), works for which the IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
Najam won the Fletcher School Paddock Teaching Award (2004), MIT's Goodwin Medal for Effective Teaching (1997), the International Political Science Association's Stein Rokkan Award (1997), and the Pakistan Television Outstanding Achievement Medal (1990). He has been a famous Pakistani TV Talk Show host and journalist who has emerged as a rising star in the international environmental movement according to The Boston Globe.
In 2011 Najam was elected to the Board of Trustees of WWF-International, the World Wide Fund for Nature and in 2013 he was elected as a Trustee of The Asia Foundation . He was also elected the Chairman of the Board of Governors of LEAD-Pakistan. Najam also serves on the Board of the Pakistan Institute for Environment-Development Action Research (PIEDAR) and is a Visiting Research Fellow of Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) Islamabad.
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