Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Date of Birth

    

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Malaysian economsit

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1952

Profession: economist

Nationality: Malaysia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Jomo Kwame Sundaram

  • Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Tamil: ???? ?????? ????????, romanized: Jomo kuvame cuntaram) (born 11 December 1952), known as Jomo, is a prominent Malaysian economist.
  • He holds the Tun Hussein Onn Chair in International Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia, and is Visiting Senior Fellow at Khazanah Research Institute, Visiting Fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, and Adjunct Professor at the International Islamic University, Malaysia.
  • He is also a member of the Malaysian Council of Eminent Persons who advises the Federal Government of Malaysia. He served as the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) during 2005–2012, and then as Assistant Director-General and Coordinator for Economic and Social Development at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome during 2012–2015.
  • He was also Research Coordinator for the G24 Intergovernmental Group on International Monetary Affairs and Development during 2006–2012.
  • During 2008–2009, he served as adviser to Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, President of the 63rd United Nations General Assembly, and as a member of the [Stiglitz] Commission of Experts of the President of the United Nations General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System. Jomo is a leading scholar and expert on the political economy of development, especially in Southeast Asia, who has authored or edited over a hundred books and translated 12 volumes besides writing many academic papers and articles for the media.
  • He is on the editorial boards of several learned journals.
  • He was founder chair of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), and sat on the Board of the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva.
  • He has received several honours and awards for his work including the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Before joining the UN, Jomo was already widely recognized as an outspoken intellectual, with unorthodox non-partisan views.
  • Before the Asian financial crisis in 1997–98, Jomo was an early advocate of appropriate new capital account management measures, which then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad later introduced.
  • When then Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was imprisoned without trial under the Internal Security Act, Jomo publicly condemned the repression.
  • In late 1998, he was sued for defamation for 250 million ringgit by Vincent Tan, a Mahathir era billionaire, who later dropped the case after almost a decade. Currently, he is one of five members of an advisory team called "Council of Eminent Persons" (Malay: Majlis Penasihat Kerajaan) for Malaysian government since 10 May 2018.

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