Shahid A. Kamal
COMSTECH Adviser
Islamabad, Pakistan
Ambassador Shahid A. Kamal
Ambassador Kamal is Adviser (Climate Change) at the OIC (Organization Islamic Organization) Ministerial Standing Committee for Scientific & Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH). Ambassador Kamal is founder of COMSTECH Forum on Environment and Ecosystem Restoration which is organizing a seminar on ‘Solutions to Combating Flood Insecurity and Malnutrition in the Sahel”.at the Science Summit during 77 session of UNGA.
Ambassador Kamal has been a career diplomat of Pakistan and served as Ambassador Germany., Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Latvia. Besides the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he has worked in Prime Minister’s Office and was posted to United Nations in New York, Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Jeddah, and diplomatic missions in Paris, New York, Washington.
Ambassador Kamal has founded the COMSTATS Centre for Climate and Sustainability (CCCS)-virtual network to focus on climate change and sustainable development goals and the Centre for Climate Research & Development (CCRD) at COMSATS University in Islamabad, Pakistan-.He was instrumental in establishing the Centre for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan.
He was Consultant to Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for setting up the Science, Technology & Innovation Organization for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. He is Senior Fellow at National University of Science and Technology Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan and a founding Member of the World Dignity University, a project launched by the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network.
Ambassador Kamall is a graduate of University of London, Institut Internationale d’ Administration Publique, Paris, Government College, Lahore, Pakistan.