Dr Maleeha Lodhi

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Dr Maleeha Lodhi is Pakistan�s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.

She twice served as Pakistan�s Ambassador to the US (1993 � 1996, 1999 � 2002) and as High Commissioner to Britain (2003 � 2008)

Until recently she was the special adviser for international affairs to Pakistan�s largest media conglomerate, the Jang/Geo Group

She also served as a member of the UN Secretary General�s Advisory Board on Disarmament Affairs from 2001 to 2005.

She was the first woman in all of Asia to become the editor of a national daily newspaper. In 1994 Time magazine nominated her as one of a hundred people in the world who will help shape the 21st century, the only one from Pakistan.

Dr Lodhi is a member of the Council of the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies. She is a member of the Senate of Pakistan�s National Defence University.

She also serves on the advisory board of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics and is a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum.

Dr Lodhi was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington in 2010 and a Fellow at Harvard University�s Kennedy School in 2008.

She is the recipient of the President�s award of Hilal-e-Imtiaz for Public Service in Pakistan. Lodhi also received an Honorary Fellowship from the London School of Economics in 2004 and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from London�s Metropolitan University in 2005.

Dr Lodhi was the founding editor of Pakistan�s leading English daily, The News. She taught Politics and Political Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1980-85. She has also taught at Quaid e Azam University in Islamabad.

She is the author of two books: Pakistan�s Encounter with Democracy and The External Challenge.

Her latest book, an edited volume titled Pakistan: Beyond the �Crisis State,� was published in 2011 by C Hurst, Columbia University Press and Oxford University Press. It has gone into its fifth edition.