LUMS shines in the International Arena

The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) team won the “Outstanding Delegation” Award at the Harvard World Model United Nations Conference held from March 22 – 27, 2009 in The Hague, capital of Netherlands. The team comprised of 8 undergraduate students from LUMS sitting in the simulation of various United Nations committees.

The conference was attended by 2500 students from over 150 prestigious universities worldwide including Oxford, London School of Economics, Yale, Sorbonne and UC Berkley among others. Of these, only two delegations were awarded the “Outstanding Delegation” awards on their performance ratio and LUMS, with 6 individual “Outstanding Diplomacy” awards out of 8, was one of them, the other being MUN Society Belgium. At the closing ceremony held at Novotel World Forum, The Hague, it was the green and white flag that soared high.

The award marks the fourth continuous victory of the LUMS team at the Harvard WorldMUN Conferences which are organized by Harvard University and held in a different country every year. The LUMS team bagged the coveted “Outstanding Delegation” Awards in Beijing (2006), Geneva (2007) and Puebla, Mexico (2008) in the previous years, bringing Pakistan to the forefront of the largest and most prestigious student gatherings in the world, year after year.

Another LUMS team comprising of 13 students performed exceptionally at the Model UN Turkey Conference held in Izmir, Turkey from March 9 – 13, 2009 and attended by over 500 students from across the world. At MUNTR, “the team which comes and conquers every year, Lahore University of Management Sciences” were the words from the Secretary General Yigit Canay, which made the 13 member delegation from LUMS rise to receive a resounding applause. LUMS bagged the "Outstanding Delegation" award with 10 of the 13 member delegation receiving “Outstanding Diplomacy” awards in their respective committees.

The conferences provided an opportunity for the students to interact with a global audience and were well utilized to leave a strong, lasting impression of an educated, well-informed and competitive Pakistani youth.

It is noteworthy to mention here that the LUMS Model UN Society is the pioneer of Model UN simulations in Pakistan and organizes the annual All-Pakistan Model UN Conference every year at LUMS, the largest student gathering in South Asia, and the Eurasia MUN Conference in Geneva, Switzerland in partnership with University of Geneva.

LUMS Team in Turkey