Faculty

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a Professor Emerita of International Affairs at The New School, Senior Fellow at the India China Institute, and Non-resident Fellow of the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. 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).

MA University of Sussex

MALD Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy

BA (Hons) Cambridge University

2026, Palgrave Handbook on Decolonizing International Affairs, (edited with Sean Jacobs), Palgrave Macmillan

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