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  • Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

    Professor of International Affairs

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    fukudaps@newschool.edu

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    Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

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    Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a Professor of International Affairs at The New School. Her teaching and research have focused on human rights and development, global health, and global goal setting and governance by indicators. From 1995 to 2004, she was lead author and director of the UNDP Human Development Reports. Her recent publications include: Millennium Development Goals: Ideas, Interests and Influence (Routledge 2017); Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (with T. Lawson-Remer and S. Randolph, Oxford 2015), winner of the American Political Science Association’s 2016 Best Book in Human Rights Scholarship and the 2019 Grawemeyer Prize for Ideas to Improve the World Order.

    Fukuda-Parr contributes actively to international policy and research processes. She is Chair of the UN Committee on Development Policy,Chair of the Boards of Knowledge Ecology International, Co-Director of the Collective on the Political Determinants of Health at the University of Oslo, and Distinguished Fellow at the JICA Research Institute, Tokyo. 


    Degrees Held

    MA University of Sussex

    MALD Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy

    BA (Hons) Cambridge University


    Recent Publications

    2019: "Knowledge and Politics in Setting and Measuring the SDGs," special issue of Global Policy Journal, co-edited with D. McNeill.

    2018:  “Developmental States, Neoliberalism and the Right to Food: Brazil and South Africa” chapter 11 in Diane Frey and Gillian McNaughton, eds. Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World, Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge

    2017: Millennium Development Goals: Ideas, Interests and Influence, New York: Routledge

    2017: “Trade and Investment Agreements: Implications for Health Protection” (with Desmond McNeill et al). Journal of World Trade 51, no.1: 159-182

    2016: “From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals: shifts in concept, purpose, and politics of global goal setting for development”. Gender and Development 24:1

    2015: Food Security in South Africa: Human Rights and Entitlements Perspectives (ed. with Viviene Taylor). Cape Town: University of Cape Town/Juta Press

    2015: Millennium Development Goals, Capabilities and Human Rights: The Power of Numbers to Shape Agendas, (ed. with A. Yamin) London: Routledge.  (special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities)

    2015: Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (with T. Lawson-Remer and S. Randolph). New York: Oxford University Press.
    Best Book in Human Rights Scholarship Award of the American Political Science Association, 2016

    2014: “Political origins of health inequalities: prospects for change”, The Lancet 383:9917 p 630-667 (with Ole Peter Ottersen et al)  London


    Portfolio

    http://sakikofukudaparr.net


    Current Courses

    Equivalency (PHD)
    NEQV 7001, Fall 2024

    Human Rights in Global Fashion
    NINT 5112, Fall 2024

    Human Rights in Global Fashion
    UTNS 5112, Fall 2024

    Theory History Practice of Dev
    NINT 5000, Fall 2024

    Theory History Practice of Dev
    UTNS 5003, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Equivalency (PHD)
    NEQV 7001, Spring 2025

    Political Econ of Development
    NINT 5251, Spring 2025

    Politics of Knowledge
    NPUP 6003, Spring 2025

    Theory History Practice of Dev
    NINT 5000, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Equivalency (PHD)
    NEQV 7001, Spring 2024

    Political Econ of Development
    NINT 5251, Spring 2024

    Politics of Knowledge
    NPUP 6003, Spring 2024

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