Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is professor of International Affairs at the New School, in New York. A development economist, her research and teaching includes conflict prevention in development areas, human development and capability concepts and theory, human rights and development, globalization and technology for development and global equity. Her publications include The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development; Rethinking Technical Cooperation-Reforms for capacity building in Africa (with Eliot Berg) and Readings in Human Development (edited with Shivakumar.)

She has been an adviser to the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights on human rights and poverty issues and has served on numerous boards and advisory commissions, including the Center for Economic and Social Rights, the Human Development and Capability Association, and the International Development Ethics Association. A citizen of Japan, she has lived in Tokyo, London, Washington D.C. and Manila and is fluent in English, French and Japanese.