Building Bridges Seminar

Azizan Baharuddin is a professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. She was deputy director-general at the Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia from 2011 to 2015 and director of the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue from 2000 to 2011. Baharuddin has special interests in environmental ethics, the interactions and relationships between religion and science, and the impact of science on society. She is the author of Science and Religion in the Islamic Perspective (2005) and Discourse on Science, Religion and Development (2006, with others), as well as co-editor of Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust (2003); she has also written numerous journal articles and book chapters. Baharuddin earned her B.Sc. at the University of Tasmania, M.Sc. at University College London, and Ph.D. at the University of Lancaster.