Our first major initiative aligned with Lehigh's ECOSOC NGO accreditation is the launch of the Lehigh University / United Nations Faculty Fellows Program, begun in September 2025. This new initiative, believed to be the first of its kind in the world, enables Lehigh faculty to directly engage with senior UN diplomats and Member States officials, NGO Presidents, and global thought leaders at UN headquarters in New York City and beyond.
The first cohort of 16 Lehigh ECOSOC badge holders include faculty from all of Lehigh's five colleges. There areas of UN interest span a wide range of sectors, including catastrophe modeling, assistive technology, human rights in Sudan, geopolitical stability in Mali, refrigerants, microbial ecology, Generative AI, etc.
For more details on this landmark initiative, please read the full article here: Lehigh launches first-of-its-kind United Nations Faculty Fellows Program
Faculty Fellows
Mohammed Jibriel
Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Global Health, College of Health
moj225@lehigh.edu
Mark Noble
Teaching Assistant Professor, Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences
mdn215@lehigh.edu
Paolo Bocchini
Professor and Director, Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience
pab409@lehigh.edu
Sabrina B. Arias
Assistant Professor, International Relations, College of Arts and Sciences
saa423@lehigh.edu
Wayne Lee
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Health Data Science, College of Health
hsl324@lehigh.edu
Gabrielle String
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Dept. of Community and Population Health
gms221@lehigh.edu
Vinod Namboodiri
Professor and Forlenza Chair, Health Innovation and Technology in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and College of Health
vin423@lehigh.edu
Devin Finn
Visiting Assistant Professor, International Relations, College of Arts & Sciences
dmf221@lehigh.edu
Dhruv Seshadri
Asst. Professor, Bioengineering, P.C. Rossin College of Engineering of Applied Sciences
dhs223@lehigh.edu
Michael Rivera
Assistant Professor, Business Information Systems, Decision and Technology Analytics, College of Business
michael.rivera@lehigh.edu
Amirtahà Taebi
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, P.C. Rossin College of Engineering of Applied Science
amt525@lehigh.edu
Krista Liguori
Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Community & Global Health
phone: 610-758-6436 krl423@lehigh.edu
Zilong Pan
Assistant Professor, Teaching, Learning and Technology, College of Education
zip322@lehigh.edu