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Lahore University of Management
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Lahore University of Management Sciences
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Vice Chancellor's Profile
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| LUMS
is pleased to announce that Dr. Ahmad
Jan Durrani has joined as the new Vice
Chancellor of the University effective
July 1, 2008.
Dr. Durrani comes to LUMS with a highly
accomplished research, teaching, and
academic administration career spanning
over twenty five years during which
time, he served as chair of the Civil
and Environmental engineering department
for six years and as Associate Dean
of engineering for three years at Rice
University, Houston. He is a Fellow
of the American Society of Civil Engineers
and Founding Director of the Rice Global
Forum. Following the 2005 Kashmir earthquake,
he led a team of US researchers to Pakistan
to study the earthquake risk and damage
in the affected areas. Last year, he
organized a joint Rice-LUMS workshop
at LUMS on Connexions technology, an
open-courseware initiative at Rice. |
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| Dr. Durrani
has a PhD degree in Civil Engineering from the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MBA
from the University of Houston. He received
his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
as a Gold Medalist from University of Engineering
and Technology, Lahore. He is a leading expert
in the area of earthquake risk mitigation with
a distinguished record in research, teaching,
and professional service. He serves as Chair
of the Mayor of Houston’s International
Advisory and Development Council for South Asia
and is a charter member of OPEN-Houston, an
organization of Pakistani entrepreneurs. Dr.
Durrani is married to Dr. Neelofer Durrani who
is a Board Certified Ob/Gyn physician with her
private practice in Houston. |
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Last Updated: Tuesday, 08 July, 2008 @ 10:47am |
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2008 Lahore University of Management Sciences,
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