Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

 

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BIO: 

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Professor of International Affairs at the New School. She is a development economist working in the multidisciplinary framework of capabilities and human development, and currently works on relating human rights and development policy, conflict prevention, and global technology. She codirects the Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative. She was previously a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. From 1995 to 2004, she was lead author and director of the UNDP Human Development Reports. In addition to these reports, other publications include: The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development; Readings in Human Development; Rethinking Technical Cooperation - Reforms for capacity building in Africa; Capacity for Development - Old Problems, New Solutions, and numerous papers and book chapters on issues of poverty, gender, human rights, technology. She founded and is editor of the Journal of Human Development, and is on the Editorial Board of Feminist Economics. She is also on the board of several NGOs that advocate human rights and technology for development.She was appointed by the UN Secretary General to the Committee on Development Policy. 

Sakiko received her BA from Cambridge University (UK), MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (USA), and MA from the University of Sussex (UK).

 

NEWS:  

Recent op eds:

  • September 27, 2011, IP-Watch Inside Views, Health Impact Fund - Raising Issues of Distribution , IP Rights and Alliances (with Proochista Ariana) http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2011/09/26/health-impact-fund-%E2%80%93-raising-issues-of-distribution-ip-rights-and-alliances/?utm_source=post&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts
  • August 30, 2011, The Guardian, Learning the lessons of the MDGs: The second time round let's get it right (with Alicia Yamin) http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/aug/30/millennium-development-goals-after-2015
  • August 11, 2011, Nordic Africa Development Forum, MDGs and the narrative of development: What about pro-poor growth and structural change? http://www.nai.uu.se/forum/entries/2011/08/11/mdgs-and-the-narrative/index.xml

Other 2011 Publications:

  • 2011 Special issue - Human Rights and Capabilities, coeditor with Diane Elson and Polly Vizard, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities Vol 12 Issue 1 Book version forthcoming, London: Routledge
  • 2011 "Theory and policy in international development: human development and capability approach and the millennium development goals" International Studies Review 13:1, 22-132
  • 2011 "The Metrics of Human Rights: Complementarities of the Human Rights and Capabilities Approach" Journal of Human Development and Capabilities Vol 12 Issue 1
  • 2011 "The Capabilities Approach and Human Rights", Journal of Human Development and Capabilities Vol 12 Issue 1 Book version forthcoming, London: Routledge
  • 2011 "International Norm Dynamics and ‘the End of Poverty': Understanding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); Global Governance 17:1  (with David Hulme) Earlier version published as 2009 "International Norm Dynamics and ‘the End of Poverty': Understanding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)" (with David Hulme) Working Paper No 96 Brooks World Poverty Institute http://www.bwpi.manchester.ac.uk/resources/Working-Papers/index.html

In May 2011, the Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative was launched. Sakiko is a codirector of this project. Please visit http://www.serfindex.org for more information

CONTACT INFORMATION: 

66 West 12th Street
Office 605
1 (212) 206 3524 x2343
fukudaps@newschool.edu

OFFICE HOURS: 

Mondays 4-6pm or by appointment