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Syed Azmat Hassan
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
Fax: 717-960-9849
sah2160@columbia.edu
Biography:
Ambassador S. Azmat Hassan (Ret.) holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University.
Ambassador Hassan joined the Whitehead School in 2000 after 33 years as a career diplomat for Pakistan. He was Ambassador of Pakistan to Malaysia, Syria and Morocco. He was also Deputy Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations in New York. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Pakistan, Hassan held numerous assignments including Director General for Afghanistan, and Additional Secretary of the Middle East Division. He also served as Additional Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan for Foreign Affairs and Defense.
At the Whitehead School, Ambassador Hassan teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the Middle East and Diplomatic Method. He has represented the Whitehead School in numerous conferences and meetings. He serves on the Board of the Center for War/Peace Studies in New York. He is a frequent guest on FOX TV, CN8, NJ12 and other TV stations. He has given numerous interviews to the print media. He has also appeared for radio interviews. He has written for the Daily Record of New Jersey, the New Jersey Star Ledger and for Dawn, Karachi
His recent activities include: Keynote address at the 30th anniversary of the International Public Policy Institute (IPPI) in Islam and the West and the Dialogue among Civilizations (February 2006). Seminar Lectures on terrorism at Rutgers University (2006). Visiting Professor at The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)(Summer 2006 and 2007).
Publications:
Book chapter on multilateral economic diplomacy and the UN, edited by James Muldoon.
Editor of the Monograph "What Future for the United Nations" containing the proceedings of a Conference organized by the World Federalist Association (now renamed as Citizens for Global Solutions) in November 2003.
Lead author of a Report on "Violence Against Women" contributed as an input by the International Policy Institute (IPPI) a NGO affiliated with the United Nations, for the UN Secretary General's 2006 Report on "Violence Against Women".
Key note essay on Pakistan's perspective of geopolitics in South Asia in a forthcoming book captioned Home and the World: South Asia in Transition" being published by the Cambridge Scholars Press, UK.