Just Faaland
Just Faaland (January 25, 1922 – February 17, 2017[1] ) was a Norwegian political economist.
Background and education[edit]
Justus Faaland was born in Tromsø, Norway in 1922, to Josef Tobiassen Faaland and Elna Faaland. He grew up in Oslo and studied actuarial science at the University of Oslo, but his studies were interrupted on November 30, 1943 when the University was occupied by the German Nazi government and 650 students were arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Faaland was held prisoner from December 1943 until April 11, 1945 when Buchenwald was liberated by American troops. Upon his return to Norway in May 1945, Faaland resumed his actuarial degree and then studied economics under Ragnar Frisch.
After further studies in Economics at the University of Oxford, Faaland joined the Marshall Plan Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) in Paris in 1949.[2] Later he worked for a number of international institutions including the World Bank, ILO, IFAD, FAO, WFP, UNDP, and the Asian Development Bank. Faaland was based as a development researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) from 1952 to 2017 serving as director for 28 years. With the political scientist Stein Rokkan he initiated and developed broader research programmes and employed more people in the 1950s and in 1961 they defined research programs in international economics and comparative politics. In 1965, the Development Action and Research Programme (DERAP), a development economics project on growth problems in developing countries was formally established. In the early 1980s, Faaland established a human rights programme which soon grew to become the other main focus of CMI's social science research.
Faaland was one of the individuals responsible for the formulation of the Malaysian New Economic Policy. He was also the director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute.[3] and chairman of the UN Committee for Development Planning (1999-2000).[2] Faaland formally retired in 1988.[4]
He died on February 17, 2017 in Bergen, at the age of 95.[5]
Honors[edit]
Norway: Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav[4]- Norway: Honorary doctorate from the University of Bergen[4]
Malaysia: Honorary Doctorate University of Malaya[4]- Malaysia: Honorary title Tan Sri[1]
- Malaysia: Merdeka Award for Outstanding Contribution to the People of Malaysia[6]
- Malaysia: Honorary Commander of the Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia (P.S.M.) (2002)[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Tan Sri Just Faaland". Merdeka Award. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
- ^ a b Just Faaland, The United Nations Intellectual History Project, retrieved 2010-08-13
- ^ Linden, Eugene (1991-08-19), "Will We Run Low On Food?", TIME, Time Inc., archived from the original on November 4, 2012, retrieved 2009-08-19
- ^ a b c d Gripsrud, Silje (2003-08-05), Ærestittel til Just Faaland, På Høyden, retrieved 2010-01-22
- ^ "Nekrolog: Just Faaland" (in Norwegian). February 22, 2017. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
- ^ "Archives | The Star Online". web.archive.org. 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ "Semakan Penerima Darjah Kebesaran, Bintang dan Pingat".
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