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Jomo Kwame Sundaram () (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).

Jomo attended Westland's Primary School from 1959 to 1963, continuing at the 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.

He then obtained a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard University in 1974. He then pursued a PhD, returning to Malaysia to teach at the Science University of Malaysia (USM). He completed his PhD at Harvard in 1977 while teaching at Yale. He taught at Harvard in 1974 and 1975.

In mid-1982, Jomo joined the University of Malaya, where he remained a 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). Provided by Wikipedia