Pervez Hoodbhoy

Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy taught physics at Quaid-i-Azam University for 47 years (1973-2021) and was a Distinguished Professor at Forman Christian College (2013-2020). He has been a visiting professor at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, University of Maryland, and a post-doc at the University of Washington. In 2022, he founded The Black Hole, a community space in Islamabad for science, art, and culture.

Dr Hoodbhoy graduated from MIT with degrees in electrical engineering, mathematics, solid state physics, and a PhD in nuclear physics. He sponsors The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is a member of the World Federation of Scientists, and founded the Eqbal Ahmad Centre for Public Education. Since 1988, he has led Mashal Books, promoting modern thought and human rights in Urdu.

He has received numerous awards, including the Baker Award (1968), Abdus Salam Prize (1984), UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize (2003), Joseph A. Burton Award (2010), and Jean Meyer Award (2010). He was named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 most influential global thinkers in 2011 and served on the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Affairs (2013-2017). In 2019, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia.