Jomo Sundaram
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Jomo Sundaram is a member of the IPES-Food panel, and senior adviser to the Khazanah Research Institute. He is also a fellow of the Academy of Science, Malaysia, and emeritus professor, University of Malaya.
He was UN assistant secretary general for economic development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) (2005-12), research coordinator for the G24 Intergovernmental Group on International Monetary Affairs and Development (2006-12), assistant director general for Economic and Social Development at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (2012-15), and third Tun Hussein Onn Chair in International Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia (2016-17). He received the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
He has authored and edited over a hundred books and translated 12 volumes besides writing many academic papers and media articles.
Malaysia
English, Malay
Food Security
Local Food Systems
