Dr Maleeha Lodhi,
HI, is a
journalist,
academic, and
diplomat from
Pakistan. She was the
high commissioner of
Pakistan to the
United Kingdom, and a former
ambassador to the
United States. In the Fall of 2008 she was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics,
Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University. She has also been a member of the
United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on
Disarmament.
Born in
Lahore, Pakistan, Dr. Maleeha got her School education in Lahore and
Rawalpindi. After her
B.Sc. in Government from the LSE, Ms. Lodhi obtained a
Ph.D. in 1980 from the
London School of Economics (LSE). Began with teaching for a short while at the
Quaid-e-Azam University,
Islamabad, she then taught at
LSE for five years (1980–1985), before returning to Pakistan to work for and then edit the English language newspaper
The Muslim (1987–1990) and later to become the founding editor of
The News International (1990–1993) and (1997–1999). She became the first woman in
Asia to edit a national daily newspaper.
She became the Pakistani Ambassador to the US, under two different Presidents from 1994–1997 and then during 1999-2002 (in the process becoming Pakistan's longest ever serving Ambassador to the US) before relinquishing her post on the completion of her second tour of duty. Since 2001 she has also served on the
UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Affairs and continues to do so while holding...
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