Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York City. Her teaching and research have focused on human rights and development, global health, and global goal setting and governance by indicators. From 1995 to 2004, she was lead author and director of the UNDP Human Development Reports. Her publications include: Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (with T. Lawson-Remer and S. Randolph, Oxford 2015). which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Prize for Ideas to Improve the World Order;  Knowledge and Politics in Setting and  Measuring and Setting the Sustainable Development goals (special issue of Global Policy coedited with D. McNeill). 

Professor Fukuda-Parr contributes actively to international policy and research processes. She is Chair of the Boards of Knowledge Ecology International, Co-Director of the Collective on the Political Determinants of Health at the University of Oslo, and Distinguished Fellow at the JICA Research Institute, Tokyo and has been Chair of the UN Committee on Development Policy.