Karim Ahmed, Ph.D.

A.Karim Ahmed, Ph.D., is the secretary-treasurer of the Global Council on Science and the Environment and an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Previously, Ahmed was senior fellow and deputy director of the Program on Health, Environment, and Development at the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington, D.C. On behalf of WRI, Ahmed helped launch the 1998 – 1999 World Resources Report (WRR) at a press briefing in New Delhi, India, in July 1998, and gave a major public address on the impact of climate change on human health at the first Indian National Conference on Environment and Health. Ahmed obtained a B.Sc. in physics and chemistry (with highest honors) from the University of Karachi, Pakistan, in 1959 and a doctoral degree in physical biochemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1969. He conducted basic research in protein chemistry at Harvard University’s Biological Laboratories (1963–1965) and as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (1969–1971).