Ambassador Dr. Maleeha Lodhi as Chief Guest of Pakistan American Business Association to Ring The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell

ADVISORY, Aug. 24, 2016 --

What: 
Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, Ambassador to Pakistan’s Mission to the United Nations, as Chief Guest of Pakistan American Business Association (PABA) will visit the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square to commemorate Pakistan's 70^th Independence Day.

In honor of the occasion Ambassador Lodhi will ring the Closing Bell. 

Where:
Nasdaq MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43^rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:
Thursday, August 25, 2016 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET  

Ambassador Dr. Maleeha Lodhi Contact:
Masood Anwar, Press Minister, Pakistan Mission to the United Nations
(917) 860-0098
[email protected]

Nasdaq MarketSite:
Emily Pan
(646) 441-5120
[email protected]

Feed Information:
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Gal 3C/06C 95.05 degrees West
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DL 3811 Vertical
FEC 3/4
SR 13.235
DR 18.295411
MOD 4:2:0
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About Ambassador Dr. Maleeha Lodhi
Dr. Maleeha Lodhi is Pakistan's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. She twice served as Pakistan's Ambassador to the US (1993 - 1996, 1999 - 2002) and as High Commissioner to Britain (2003 - 2008). Until recently she was the special adviser for international affairs to Pakistan's largest media conglomerate, the Jang/Geo Group She also served as a member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Affairs from 2001 to 2005. She was the first woman in all of Asia to become the editor of a national daily newspaper. In 1994 Time magazine nominated her as one of a hundred people in the world who will help shape the 21st century, the only one from Pakistan. Dr Lodhi is a member of the Council of the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies. She is a member of the Senate of Pakistan's National Defence University. She also serves on the advisory board of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics and is a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum. Dr Lodhi was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington in 2010 and a Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School in 2008. She is the recipient of the President's award of Hilal-e-Imtiaz for Public Service in Pakistan. Lodhi also received an Honorary Fellowship from the London School of Economics in 2004 and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from London's Metropolitan University in 2005. Dr Lodhi was the founding editor of Pakistan's leading English daily, The News. She taught Politics and Political Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1980-85. She has also taught at Quaid e Azam University in Islamabad. She is the author of two books: Pakistan's Encounter with Democracy and The External Challenge. Her latest book, an edited volume titled Pakistan: Beyond the ‘Crisis State,' was published in 2011 by C Hurst, Columbia University Press and Oxford University Press. It has gone into its fifth edition.

About Pakistan American Business Association
Pakistan American Business Association (PABA) is a global member-based, not-for-profit business organization serving as an economic bridge between the United States of America and Pakistan. Founded in 1986, in Washington, D.C. metro area, PABA has provided leadership training, community service, business networking, and hosted highly successful business conventions and trade shows. PABA’s mission is to provide support and mentor entrepreneurs, promote leadership development and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs, professionals, academics, and students, and create economic prosperity for both the United States and Pakistan through collaboration and partnership. To learn more, visit: www.pabausa.org

About Nasdaq
Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) is a leading provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services across six continents. Through its diverse portfolio of solutions, Nasdaq enables customers to plan, optimize and execute their business vision with confidence, using proven technologies that provide transparency and insight for navigating today's global capital markets. As the creator of the world's first electronic stock market, its technology powers more than 70 marketplaces in 50 countries, and 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Nasdaq is home to more than 3,700 listed companies with a market value of approximately $9.3 trillion and nearly 18,000 corporate clients. To learn more, visit: nasdaq.com/ambition or business.nasdaq.com.

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