Beaconhouse National University (BNU)

The panelists also shed light upon the economic, environmental, and political dimensions of CPEC. Importantly, panelists discussed the substance and content of current Pakistan-US relations and whether American interests in green energy and climate change factor into its foreign policy. Speakers included Professor Hong Stella Zhang, a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center of the Harvard Kennedy School; Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Director General of Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad and former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States; Ms. Imrana Tiwana, Head of Initiative for Climate change and Environmental Sustainability at BNU; Dr. Syed Mohammad Ali, who is a non-Resident Faculty/Visiting Fellow at BNU, and teaches graduate courses at the Advanced Academic Programs at Johns Hopkins University; Ambassador Hassan Raza, a diplomat and former Special Secretary at Pakistan's Foreign Office; and Mr. Ghammaz Husnain, Assistant Professor at RHSA and Coordinator of CURE, the Centre for Urban and Rural Environments.