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Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, (Urdu: مليحه لودهى;HI, PhD), is a Pakistani political scientist, diplomat, columnist, and military strategist who served as the High Commissioner of Pakistan to the United Kingdom and prior to that, twice as the Pakistan Ambassador to the United States. She currently serves as the Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, the first women to hold the position.〔(Maleeha Lodhi made Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN )〕 She was the resident fellow at the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government at the Harvard University. She served as a member of the United Nations Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament from 2001 to 2005. In 1994, Lodhi was selected by ''Time magazine'' as one of a hundred people in the world who will help to shape the 21st century. 〔(Pakistan appoints journalist Maleeha Lodhi as UN envoy )〕 In 2009 she was named an international scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Lodhi taught Politics and Political Sociology at the London School of Economics from 1980 to 1985 and was the editor of ''The News International''. 〔(Dr. Maleeha Lodhi )〕 Lodhi is also a member of the National Defence University's Senate, and a member of the advisory council of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.〔(Pakistan's new ambassador talks to Alice Thomson about Iraq, feminism and discos )〕 ==Early life and family== Lodhi was born in Lahore, Punjab, to an upper-middle-class family. Her father was the chief executive of the British-based oil company and was the first head of a British company in Pakistan.〔 Her mother received a MA in journalism and was offered a scholarship to study in the United States after graduating, but gave up a career in journalism to become a homemaker and look after her children.〔 Lodhi has two siblings.〔 Lodhi was married to a banker in London, but they divorced after five years of marriage.〔 Together, they have a son named Faisal, who is now married.〔 Lodhi first received her school education in Lahore and Rawalpindi, but moved to United Kingdom. She attended the London School of Economics in 1972 to study economics. She received her BSc in Economics, with specializing in government finances in 1976, worked towards attaining PhD in political science, which she was awarded in 1980.〔 Her doctoral thesis was titled "Bhutto, the People's Pakistan Party and political development in Pakistan,1967–1977". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maliha Lodhi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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