Driven to pursue ideals


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 05 Dec 2004

His views are often perceived as too radical for the establishment, but that does not detract from the fact that Dr Jomo KwameSundaram is a leading public intellectual. JOCELINE TAN spoke to him following news of his appointment as assistant secretary-general of the UN Department of Economics and Social Affairs. 

IT is hard to ignore Dr Jomo Kwame Sundaram. First, there is his rather unusual name. 

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