Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Tamil: ஜோமோ குவாமே சுந்தரம், romanized: Jōmō Kuvāmē Cuntaram) (born 11 December 1952) is a Malaysian economist who currently serves as research advisor at the Khazanah Research Institute, a visiting fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, and an adjunct professor at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). == Early life and education == Jomo was born into an ethnically mixed family, his mother Chua Sack Liang being Chinese and his father Shree Kaliana Sundaram being Indian; he was named after African anti-colonial leaders Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah.