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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, politics of knowledge, and decolonizing international affairs . From 1995 to 2004, she was lead author and director of the UNDP Human Development Reports. He coauthored book, Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (with T. Lawson-Remer and S. Randolph, Oxford 2015), won 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. 

    She contributes actively to international policy and research processes. She is President of IAFFE (International Association of Feminist Economics), Co-Director of the Collective on the Political Determinants of Health at the University of Oslo. She was appointed by the UN Secretary General to The Committee on Development Policy (2013-2024).  


    Degrees Held

    MA University of Sussex

    MALD Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy

    BA (Hons) Cambridge University


    Recent Publications

    2023, “Why is macroeconomics neglected in equity and inclusion strategies for sustainable development? An exploration of four systemic barriers’, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 

    2022, “When indicators fail: SPAR, the invisible measure of pandemic preparedness.” Policy and Society.

    2020, “Southern origins of sustainable development goals: Ideas, actors, aspirations” (with Bhumika Muchhala). World Development 

    2019, “Knowledge and Politics in Setting and Measuring the Sustainable Development Goals”, Special Issue, (Guest editor, with Desmond McNeill) Global Policy Journal 

    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


    Portfolio

    http://sakikofukudaparr.net


    Future Courses

    Decolonizing International Aff
    UTNS 5003, Fall 2025

    Decolonizing International Aff
    NINT 5000, Fall 2025

    Equivalency (PHD)
    NEQV 7001, Fall 2025

    Human Rights in Global Fashion
    UTNS 5112, Spring 2026

    Human Rights in Global Fashion
    NINT 5112, Spring 2026

    Independent Study
    GLIB 6990, Spring 2026

    Political Econ of Development
    GECO 5032, Fall 2025

    Political Econ of Development
    NINT 5251, Fall 2025

    Past Courses

    Equivalency (PHD)
    NEQV 7001, Spring 2025

    Human Rights in Global Fashion
    UTNS 5112, Fall 2024

    Human Rights in Global Fashion
    NINT 5112, Fall 2024

    Independent Study
    GLIB 6990, Spring 2025

    Political Econ of Development
    NINT 5251, Spring 2025

    Theory History Practice of Dev
    NINT 5000, Spring 2025

    Theory History Practice of Dev
    UTNS 5003, Fall 2024

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