| Jomo
K. S. has been Assistant Secretary General for Economic
Development in the United Nations' Department of Economic
and Social Affairs (DESA) since January 2005. He was
Professor in the Applied Economics Department, Faculty
of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya
until November 2004, and was on the Board of the United
Nations Research Institute on Social Development (UNRISD),
Geneva (2002-4). He is Founder Chair of IDEAs, International
Development Economics Associates (www.ideaswebsite.org)
Jomo is married to Noelle Rodriguez and has three
children, Nadia (born 1987), Emil (born 1989) and
Leal (born 1990).
Born in Penang, Malaysia, in 1952, Jomo studied at
the Penang Free School (PFS, 1964-6), Royal Military
College (RMC, 1967-70), Yale (1970-3) and Harvard
(1973-7). He has taught at Science University of Malaysia
(USM, 1974), Harvard (1974-5), Yale (1977), National
University of Malaysia (UKM, 1977-82), University
of Malaya (since 1982), and Cornell (1993). He has
also been a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University
(1987-8; 1991-2) and was Visiting Senior Research
Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University
of Singapore (2004).
He has authored over 35 monographs, edited over 50
books and translated 11 volumes besides writing many
academic papers and articles for the media. He is
on the editorial boards of several learned journals.
Some of his most recent book publications include
Malaysia's Political Economy (with E. T. Gomez), Tigers
in Trouble, Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development:
Theory and the Asian Evidence (with Mushtaq Khan),
Malaysian Eclipse: Economic Crisis and Recovery, Globalization
Versus Development: Heterodox Perspectives, Southeast
Asia's Industrialization, Ugly Malaysians? South-South
Investments Abused, Southeast Asian Paper Tigers?
Behind Miracle and Debacle, Manufacturing Competitiveness:
How Internationally Competitive National Firms And
Industries Developed In East Asia, Ethnic Business?
Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia (with Brian Folk),
Deforesting Malaysia: The Political Economy of Agricultural
Expansion and Commercial Logging (with YT Chang and
KJ Khoo), M Way: Mahathir's Economic Policy Legacy
and After The Storm: Crisis, Recovery and Sustaining
Development in East Asia.
In 2005, a few more books will be published including:
Bail-Outs? Capital Controls, Restructuring & Recovery
in Malaysia. (with Wong Sook Ching and Chin Kok Fay),
Industrial Policy in Malaysia: The Chequered Record
of Selective Investment Promotion, Labour Market Segmentation
In Malaysian Services (with H. L. Khong), Law and
the Malaysian Economy (with others), Globalization
Under Hegemony: The Changing World Economy During
The Long Twentieth Century, The Great Divergence:
Hegemony, Uneven Development and Global Inequality
during the Long Twentieth Century, The New Development
Economics (with Ben Fine), The Origins of Development
Economics (with Erik Reinert) and Pioneers of Development
Economics.
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