Prof. 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. 

Prof. Fukuda-Parr most recent appointments include the UN Committee on Development Policy as Vice Chair, the Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines and Innovation, and Boards of Knowledge Ecology International and International Association for Feminist Economics. She directs the Independent Panel on Global Governance for Health at the University of Oslo, and also serves as Distinguished Fellow at the JICA Research Institute, Tokyo.

From 1995 to 2004, she was lead author and director of the UNDP Human Development Reports. Her recent publications include Millennium Development Goals: Ideas, Interests and Influence (2017); Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (with T. Lawson-Remer and S. Randolph, 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.