Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is the Director of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at The New School. Her teaching and research have focused on human rights and development, global health, and global goal setting and governance by indicators. From 1995 to 2004, she was lead author and director of the UNDP Human Development Reports. Her recent publications include: Knowledge and Politics in Setting and Measuring the SDGs (special issue of Global Policy Journal co-edited with Desmond McNeill); Millennium Development Goals: Ideas, Interests and Influence (Routledge 2017); Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (with T. Lawson-Remer and S. Randolph, Oxford 2015), winner of 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.

Fukuda-Parr serves on the UN Committee on Development Policy as Vice Chair, the Independent Panel on Global Governance for Health at the University of Oslo, and as Distinguished Fellow at the JICA Research Institute, Tokyo.