Mr Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Jomo K. S is Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations. He was Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and Founder Chair of IDEAs, or International Development Economics Associates www.ideaswebsite.org, and Professor in the Applied Economics Department, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, until late 2004.

Born in Penang, Malaysia, in 1952, Jomo studied at the Penang Free School (PFS, 1964-6), Royal Military College (RMC, 1967-70), Yale (1970-3) and Harvard (1973-7). He has taught at Science University of Malaysia (USM, 1974), Harvard (1974-5), Yale (1977), National University of Malaysia (UKM, 1977-82), University of Malaya (since 1982), and Cornell (1993). He has also been a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University (1987-8; 1991-2).

He has authored over 35 monographs, edited over 50 books and translated 11 volumes besides writing many academic papers and articles for the media. He is on the editorial boards of several learned journals. Some of his most recent book publications include Malaysia’s Political Economy, Tigers in Trouble, Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development, Malaysian Eclipse: Economic Crisis and Recovery, Globalization Versus Development: Heterodox Perspectives, Southeast Asia’s Industrialization, Ugly Malaysians? South-South Investments Abused, Southeast Asian Paper Tigers, Manufacturing Competitiveness, Ethnic Business? Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia, Deforesting Malaysia, M Way: Mahathir’s Economic Policy Legacy, and After The Storm: Crisis, Recovery and Sustaining Development in East Asia.