and the General Assembly's Second, Third and Fifth Committees as well as the World Economic Forum (Davos), Global Policy Forum (Yaroslavl), World Public Forum (Rhodos), World Social Forum (Porto Alegre) and many academic, business, and civil society conferences. Malaysia Council of Eminent Persons and Economic Action Council In the aftermath of 2018 Malaysian general election (GE14) which saw a change of government, Jomo was appointed one of the five-member Council of Eminent Persons to advise the new Pakatan Harapan (PH)'s Federal Government and members Economic Action Council (EAC) chaired by the new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad later on 11 February 2019 Publications Jomo is a leading scholar and expert on the political economy of development, especially in Southeast Asia, who has authored or edited over a hundred books and translated 12 volumes besides writing many academic papers and articles for the media. He holds the Tun Hussein Onn Chair in International Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia, was founder chair of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), and sat on the board of the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva. He is on the editorial boards of several learned journals and has received several honours and awards for his work including the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. His extensive writings have covered development economics, international economics, industrial policy, privatisation, rent-seeking corruption, economic liberalisation, economic distribution, affirmative action, ethnic relations, Islam, and Malaysian history. Jomo has authored or edited over a hundred books and translated a dozen volumes besides writing many academic papers and articles for the media. Some of his better known books include A Question of Class, Privatizing Malaysia, Southeast Asia's Misunderstood Miracle, Tigers in Trouble, Malaysia's Political Economy, Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development, Malaysian Eclipse, The New Development Economics, Flat World, Big Gaps, Reforming the International Financial System for Development, Poor Poverty and Good Governance for What? Bibliography Monographs Development and Population: Critique of Existing Theories. (1982) Early Labour: Children at Work on Malaysian Plantations. (with Josie Zaini, P. Ramasamy and Sumathy Suppiah) (1984) A Question of Class: Capital, the State and Uneven Development in Malaya. (1988) Development Policies and Income Inequality in Peninsular Malaysia. (with Ishak Shari) (1986)Mahathir's Economic Policies. (with others) (1989)Beyond 1990: Considerations for a New National Development Strategy. (1989)Beyond the New Economic Policy? Malaysia in the Nineties. (1990)Growth and Structural Change in