Education: Universities of Cambridge and Sussex, UK and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, USA

Career: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Visiting Professor at the New School's Graduate Program in International Affairs in New York. She was previously a Research Fellow in the Science, Technology and Globalization Project, an activity of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government. As a development economist, her work focuses on policies for equitable development using a multidisciplinary approach. Between 1995 and 2004, she was Director of the annual Human Development Reports commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She spearheaded the UNDP's policy work on technical cooperation effectiveness and capacity building. She led the 1993 publication Rethinking Technical Cooperation, Reforms for Capacity Building in Africa, and the 2002 revisit, Capacity for Development; Old Problems, New Solutions. She has held management positions in UNDP in Africa and worked at the World Bank as an agricultural economist. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is co-editor of Readings in Human Development: Concepts, Measures and Policies for a Development Paradigm, founding Editor of the Journal of Human Development: Alternative Economics in Action (see url below) and a member of the Editorial Board of Feminist Economics.

Publications include: numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Room 612, The New School for General Studies, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Building, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA; Tel: +1 212-206-3524 (ext. 2343); Email: fukudaps@newschool.edu ; Website: http://www.newschool.edu/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14649888.asp/ .