Akbar Ahmed

Akbar Ahmed is an Pakistani professor author filmmaker and former civil servant For more than three decades he was a civil servant in Pakistan where his posts included Political Agent in the Tribal Areas 19781980 Commissioner in Balochistan 19841988 and Pakistan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland 1999 During his acamedic career he was a visiting professor many universities including Princeton Harvard and Cambridge In 2001 he was appointed Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington DC In 2006 presented and narrated The Glories of Islamic Art a threepart British television series for Channel 5 He is the author of the book Journey into Islam The Crisis of Globalization published by the Brookings Institution Press in 2007