Mohammad Ali Chaudry, Ph. D.
Dr.
Chaudry grew up in Pakistan,
graduated from the London School of Economics with honors in Economics and
Econometrics in 1967 and earned a Ph. D. in Economics from Tufts University
(1972). He worked at AT&T from 1968 to 1998 in the Strategic Planning and
CFO organizations where he had extensive experience in financial management and
business case evaluation. He served as CFO of the Public Relations Division for
five years and has published several articles and chapters in books on
budgeting and productivity analysis.
Currently, Dr. Chaudry is a Lecturer at Rutgers
University Division of Continuing Studies.
He was part of a Rutgers University team to design a public management
training program for the National Management Institute of Egypt. As a member of
the faculty, he develops and teaches management courses for the Rutgers School
of Business Camden in cooperation with Brookdale Community College in Freehold
and with Atlantic Cape Community College Mays Landing. He uses a hybrid format (combination of
onsite and online delivery), including a Distance Learning link between two
campuses for the on-site sessions. His courses include Leadership,
Multinational Business Management, Applied Business Statistics, and other
management subjects.
Until June 2007, he was Director of the Rutgers Business Center. Before Rutgers, he was Campus College Chair,
Business and Management at the Jersey City Campus of the University
of Phoenix in New Jersey when it first opened. Throughout his
working career at AT&T, he taught economics and business courses at
Rutgers, Fairleigh Dickinson and the New School. He served as Director of the MBA Program at
Seton Hall University during 1998-1999. In
1999, he founded Citechs, a web development company.
Dr. Chaudry was elected to the Bernards Township
Board of Education (1990 to 1995) in Basking Ridge,
New Jersey and led a successful effort during
1996-1997 to build the Bernards
Township Community
Center. He was elected to the Bernards Township
Committee with in 2001 and was re-elected to a second three-year term
(2005-2007). He served as Deputy Mayor
in 2003 and as Mayor of Bernards Township in 2004, becoming the first Pakistani
born Mayor in America.
Dr. Chaudry is a member of the Board of Directors of the
Somerset Hills YMCA and of the Somerset County Cultural Diversity Coalition. He
also served as a member of the Board of Managers for the Family Services of
Morris County, New Jersey in 2003-2004. He is a graduate of the Leadership
Somerset class of 2002 and of the Leadership New Jersey class of 2003. He serves on boards of many non-profit
organizations including the YMCA of Somerset Hills (Basking Ridge).
Dr.
Chaudry is a co-founder of the Islamic Society of Central Jersey, one of the
first major Islamic centers in the state and served as President of the
American Islamic Academy in Boonton for ten years. He is co-founder of
the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge and serves as a Trustee.
Since the September 11 tragedy, Dr. Chaudry has been
active in interfaith dialogs and creating bridges of understanding with the
American community at large. He has spoken at numerous churches, synagogues and
community interfaith meetings. In addition to giving public lectures on Islam,
Dr. Chaudry has written a book (with Dr. Robert Crane), Islam, and Muslims (2010).
He also
has spoken at several colleges and universities and conducted workshops on
Islam and Muslims for several groups of middle and high school teachers in Somerset County.
He has
been named Ambassador for Peace by the Inter-religious and International
Federation for World Peace. He currently teaches a ten week course,
Understanding Islam as a part of the Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute at Rutgers
University.
Dr. Chaudry is Co-founder and President of the
Center for Understanding Islam (www.cuii.org) established immediately after
9/11 to undertake an educational effort to create a presence of moderate Muslim
scholars and thinkers who can effectively counter extremism and to engage in
interfaith and intra-faith dialogs with all communities. In an attempt to
build an enlightened Muslim presence on the airwaves, he appears frequently on
the WABC Radio program, Religion on the Line, aired
on Sunday mornings. He also has appeared on NPR, CBS News and FOX News. He is founder of the Interfaith
Network of North America (www.inona.org) a
web site designed to allow organizations to publicize their interfaith and
cultural events.
In December 2010, on a request by the United States
Department of State, Dr. Chaudry spoke to audiences of business leaders,
teachers, students, and interfaith leaders in major cities of Pakistan about
the life of Muslims in America and about their role in public service as well
as in business.
Dr. Chaudry and his wife Victoria Shahnaz and have three
children and three grandchildren.
Entrepreneurial Initiatives
Academic
Experience
Dr.
Chaudry served as Director of the Rutgers Business from October 2004 to June
2007. Starting in the Spring 2007 Semester, he has taught a course on
Understanding Islam as a part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Rutgers University. (http://olliru.rutgers.edu)
Before joining Rutgers, he was Campus College Chair at the University of Phoenix - Jersey City Campus and a
member of the economics faculty of the University of Phoenix Online and Adjunct Professor
at the Raritan Valley Community College
where he has been teaching economics and business administration.
Public Service
Dr. Chaudry was elected to the Bernards Township Board of
Education (1990 to 1995) in Basking
Ridge, New
Jersey and led a successful effort during 1996-1997 to
build the Bernards Township Community Center.
Less than two months after 9/11/2001, he was elected to the Bernards Township
Committee with 59% of the vote for a three year term (2002-2004) and was
re-elected to a second three year term (2005-2007). He was elected Mayor of
Bernards Township in 2004 as the first Pakistani born Mayor in America.
Dr. Chaudry has been very active in community service and
has served on boards of many non-profit organizations.
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