Sakiko Fukuda-Parr has gained recognition for her work with the United Nations Development Programme, her writing on human rights and development, and for founding the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.
12 Facts About Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr was the principal author of the UN Human Development Reports.
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr followed this up with stints as a Deputy Resident Adviser in Burundi, Principal Economist and Deputy Director at the Regional Bureau for Africa, and Chief of the West Africa Division.
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Since leaving UNDP, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr has worked as a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr has held research positions at the Belfer Center of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and The Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School.
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In November 2016, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines co-chaired by Ruth Dreifuss and Festus Mogae.
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr has both written and edited works on human development, poverty, and economics.
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr has participated in several journal projects and written book chapters concerning capacity development and human rights.
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr has co-edited Readings in Human Development: Concepts, Measures and Policies for a Development Paradigm, and held a position on the Feminist Economics editorial board.
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr urges nations to redirect globalization so that it benefits all countries and all peoples, to promote democratization as a force for greater social justice and to address poverty as part of the agenda for collective security.
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a joint winner of the 2019 Grawemeyer Award, alongside Terra Lawson-Remer and Susan Randolph for "Ideas for Improving World Order".
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is the winner of the American Political Science Association's 2016 Best Book in Human Rights Scholarship.