Jomo Kwame Sundaram

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Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Tamil: ஜோமோ குவாமே சுந்தரம், romanized: Jōmō Kuvāmē Cuntaram) (born 1 December 1952) is a Malaysian economist. He is a senior adviser at the Khazanah Research Institute, visiting fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, and an adjunct professor at the International Islamic University (IIUM).^[1]

Jomo began his education at Westland's Primary School from 1959 to 1963, continuing at the prestigious Penang Free School (1964–1966) and the Royal Military College (1967–1970). In 1970, he was selected to represent Malaysia at the World Youth Forum.

Jomo graduated cum laude in economics from Yale University before advancing to the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, where he obtained his Master of Public Administration (MPA) in 1974. He then pursued a PhD, returning to Malaysia to teach at the Science University of Malaysia (USM). He later completed his doctoral studies at Harvard in 1977 while simultaneously teaching at Yale and holding prior teaching roles at Harvard in 1974 and 1975, contributing to the economics department, the social studies program, and the Kennedy Institute of Politics.

In mid-1982, Jomo joined the University of Malaya, where he remained a prominent faculty member until 2004. His academic contributions included appointments as a British Academy Visiting Professor and Fellow at Cambridge University (1987–88, 1991–92), a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Cornell University in 1993, and a senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2004).^[2]