Science, Environment and Development Group

Ms. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Center for International Development
at Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government
Office 407, Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-496-0113
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: sakiko_fukuda-parr@ksg.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Research Fellow

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is writing a book on agricultural biotechnology and development with the support of a Rockefeller Foundation grant. For the period 1995-2004 she was the Director and lead author of the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Reports; in this position, she expanded the intellectual frontiers of “human development” by exploring the policy choices in areas such as democracy, cultural diversity, and human rights. She was in charge of UNDP’s programmes in francophone West Africa and led policy work in Africa for aid coordination, including an initiative on the reform of technical cooperation for capacity development. At the World Bank she worked on agriculture and rural development projects in North Africa and the Middle East. She has written and spoken widely on a range of policy issues for human development from technology to human rights, gender, human security, global governance, aid architecture, and capacity development. She is a Japanese national and holds degrees from Cambridge University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the University of Sussex.