Pervez Hoodbhoy | Why has Pakistan's Education System Collapsed | Knowledge and Entertainment

The Department of Social Sciences of SZABIST University organized an International Conference on the “Impact of #globalization on Social Science, Research and Education.” Professor Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy @PervezHoodbhoyOfficial was one of the three guest speakers. The conference ended with a vote of thanks from Prof. Dr. Altaf Mukati, Vice President of #szabist who shared his thoughts on the theme.

Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, born 11 July 1950, is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and activist who serves as a professor at the Forman Christian College and previously taught physics at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Dr. Hoodbhoy is also a prominent activist in particular concerned with the promotion of freedom of speech, secularism, scientific temper, and education in Pakistan. Hoodbhoy is generally considered one of the most vocal, progressive, and liberal members of the Pakistani intelligentsia.

Born and raised in Karachi in a Gujarati household, Hoodbhoy studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nine years, where he received degrees in electrical engineering, mathematics, and solid-state physics, eventually leading to a Ph.D. in nuclear physics. In 1981, Hoodbhoy went on to conduct post-doctoral research at the University of Washington before leaving to serve as a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. While still a professor at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Hoodbhoy worked as a guest scientist at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics from 1986 to 1994. He remained with the Quaid-e-Azam University until 2010, during which he held visiting professorships at MIT, the University of Maryland, and Stanford Linear Collider.

In 2011, Hoodbhoy joined LUMS while also working as a researcher at Princeton University. His contract with LUMS was terminated in 2013 which resulted in a controversy. Hoodbhoy has won several awards including the Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics (1984); the Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science (2003); and the Joseph A. Burton Forum Award (2010) from the American Physical Society. In 2011, he was included in the list of 100 most influential global thinkers by Foreign Policy. In 2013, he was made a member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament.

He is the author of Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality. He is the head of Mashal Books in Lahore, which claims to make "a major translation effort to produce books in Urdu that promote modern thought, human rights, and emancipation of women". Hoodbhoy has written for Project Syndicate, DAWN, The New York Times, and The Express Tribune. His daughter, Alia Amirali, is also a well-known feminist and political activist. ‪@PervezHoodbhoyOfficial‬

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