Dr

Nazia M. Habib

FRSA
Habib in 2023
Born
Bangladesh
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge, State University of New York
Scientific career
FieldsSustainable development, Food security, Action research
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge, John F. Kennedy School of Government
ThesisBiofuels and Food Security: Case Studies from Malaysia and Tanzania (2011)
Doctoral advisorPeter Nolan[1]
Websitewww.landecon.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-nazia-mintz-habib

Nazia Mintz Habib, FRSA is an interdisciplinary researcher based at the University of Cambridge, conducting action research in sustainability science and sustainable development. She is the founder and director of the university's Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development (CRSD). Her work has involved advising more than 20 governments on sustainable development and on responding to climate change.[2][3]

Early life and education

Born in Bangladesh, she earned a scholarship to study at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in the United States.[4] From there, she earned a Commonwealth Scholarship which enabled her to study in the United Kingdom. At the University of Cambridge, she earned a Master of Philosophy and then PhD.[4] Her thesis, "Biofuels and Food Security: Case Studies from Malaysia and Tanzania" won the Claydon Prize from St. Edmund's College for outstanding doctoral thesis in economics. It addressed the effects of biofuels on the markets for food and for energy.[1]

Career

At Cambridge, Habib has appointments with both the Department of Engineering and Department of Land Economy[5] and is affiliated with Newnham College.[2]

Habib worked as an expert for the World Economic Forum and various agencies of the United Nations.[1] She was the lead author of the Dead Sea Resilience Agenda, a document resulting from an 2015 international forum on how to respond to the humanitarian impact of the Syrian civil war.[6][7][8]

She is also a social entrepreneur and advisor to non-profit organisations.[1]

Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development

At the centre she founded in Cambridge, Habib and her team train decision-makers in systems thinking and develop new methodologies to add to those she has developed.[1] Together with the Commonwealth, the CRSD undertook a two-year project, "Their Future, Our Action", bringing together experts, politicians, and young people from small island developing states (SIDS). Funding bids developed in this way have led to ten million US dollars in private investment for states in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.[9] The partnership continued in 2023 with the creation of the CRSD-Commonwealth Legal Experts Committee, a group of twenty legal experts to advise on legal and governance structures to implement sustainable finance for small island developing states.[10]

Bibliography

Habib is the author of Biofuels, Food Security, and Developing Economies, published in 2016 by Routledge.[11] She is an editor of Science, Policy and Politics of Modern Agricultural System, published in 2014 by Springer Netherlands[12] and of Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Development, published in 2018 by Taylor & Francis.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Hlaba, K. L. (2021-04-01). "Celebrating International Women's Day with policy systems specialist Dr Nazia Mintz Habib". www.globalfood.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  2. 1 2 "Dr Nazia Habib". Newnham College. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  3. ↑ "Keynote | ITAS". University of Doha for Science and Technology. 2023. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  4. 1 2 Taub, Alexander (31 October 2013). "Nakoo is Kiva Meets Kickstarter for Crowd-Granting Higher Education". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  5. ↑ Mullally, Paul (14 October 2021). "Leadership". www.crsd.landecon.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  6. ↑ "Dr Nazia Mintz Habib". Institute for Manufacturing (IfM). Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  7. ↑ "Restructuring aid for Syria and its neighbours". United Nations Sustainable Development Group. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  8. ↑ Gonzalez, Gustavo (May 2016). "New aid architecture and resilience building around the Syria crisis". Forced Migration Review. Oxford Department of International Development. 52. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  9. ↑ "$10 million extra funding for Commonwealth Small Island Developing States". The Commonwealth. 22 June 2022. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  10. ↑ "Commonwealth and CRSD launch Legal Experts Committee to drive COMPASS initiative for sustainable finance". The Commonwealth. 24 October 2023. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  11. ↑ "Biofuels, food security, and developing economies". WorldCat.org. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  12. ↑ "Science, policy and politics of modern agricultural system : global context to local dynamics of sustainable agriculture". WorldCat.org. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  13. ↑ "Climate change mitigation and sustainable development". WorldCat.org. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
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