Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Dr Jomo Kwame Sundaram was an economics professor until 2004, Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development at UNDESA from 2005 to 2012, and Assistant Director-General at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from 2012 to 2015, during which he organized the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2). He received the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2007.