JOMO Kwame Sundaram


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Name: JOMO Kwame Sundaram (no family name)

Nationality: Malaysia

Gender: Male

Title: Dr

Position: Senior Adviser

Organization: Khazanah Research Institute

 

Brief profile (three lines): 

Jomo writes on economic development challenges, was an economics professor until 2004 and Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development in the United Nations system during 2005-2015. He received the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2007.

Jomo Kwame Sundaram is Senior Adviser at the Khazanah Research Institute. He is also Fellow of the Academy of Science, Malaysia, Emeritus Professor at the University of Malaya, Visiting Fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, and Visiting Professor at the International Islamic University in Malaysia. Jomo was a member of the Economic Action Council, chaired by the seventh Malaysian Prime Minister (2019-2020), and the 5-member Council of Eminent Persons appointed by him (May-August 2018), UN Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) (2005-2012), Research Coordinator for the G24 Intergovernmental Group on International Monetary Affairs and Development (2006-2012), Assistant Director General for Economic and Social Development, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (2012-2015) and Third Holder of the Tun Hussein Onn Chair in International Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia (2016-2017). He received the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.

Jomo has authored and edited over a hundred books and translated 12 volumes besides writing many academic papers and media articles. He was Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya until November 2004, Founder Director (1978-2004) of the Institute of Social Analysis (INSAN) and Founder Chair (2001-2004) of IDEAs, International Development Economics Associates (www.ideaswebsite.org), independent member of the National Economic Consultative Council (1989-1991), President of the Malaysian Social Science Association and Founding Convenor of the International Malaysian Studies Conference. He was also on the Board of the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva. He is on the editorial boards of several learned journals.