Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a Professor of International Affairs at The New School, New York. A development economist her current work focusses on global policies for human development and human rights in diverse areas including poverty reduction, conflict prevention and agricultural technology. Prior to joining the New School, she was a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government where she worked on a project on agricultural biotechnology, and from 1995 to 2004, she was director of the UNDP Human Development Reports. Created by Mahbub ul Haq to advocate policy options that expand human choices and freedom, this annual publication that tracks global poverty and development has been an influential source on policy challenges for politicians, governments, NGOs, media, academia. The 10 reports Sakiko led covered a broad range of themes, from globalization to new technologies, democracy, human rights and cultural diversity. She has had a long career in international development, starting at the World Bank where she worked on agriculture in the Middle East, and moving on to UNDP where her assignments included managing programs in East and West Africa, and leading policy initiatives for aid effectiveness and capacity development. Her publications, in addition to the Human Development Reports, include The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development, Readings in Human Development (edited with Shivakumar), Rethinking Technical Cooperation – Reforms for capacity building in Africa (with Elliot Berg), Capacity for Development (edited with C. Lopes and K. Malik), and numerous papers and book chapters. 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.
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).
Sakiko is a citizen of Japan and grew up in Tokyo, Washington D.C., London and Manila. She is married to Francis Parr, and lives in New York with their two children.
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