Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Japan

As a development economist, her work focuses on policies for equitable development using a multidisciplinary approach

Director of the annual Human Development Reports commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 1995 - 2004

These research-based publications are known for their innovative measurement, concepts, and policy proposals on emerging development challenges, covering diverse themes such as Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World (2002), Making New Technologies Work for Human Development (2001); Human Rights (2000); Globalization (1999). She is co-editor of Readings in Human Development: Concepts, Measures and Policies for a Development Paradigm. She is founding editor of the Journal of Human Development: Alternative Economics in Action and is on the editorial board of Feminist Economics.

Has held management positions in UNDP in Africa and worked at the World Bank as an agricultural economist.

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko, ed. "The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development", December 2006.

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