Why Munawar Karim Keeps Returning to the World’s Hardest Problems

Why Munawar Karim Keeps Returning to the World’s Hardest Problems

Some careers move in a straight line. Munawar Karim’s has never belonged to that category. His body of work cuts across disciplines that most people spend a lifetime encountering only in isolation, theoretical physics, aircraft design, energy infrastructure, and modern South Asian history. Yet the throughline is unmistakable. Again and again, Karim has gravitated toward problems that sit at the intersection of technical difficulty and institutio…