# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-khor
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:52:35.907Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-khor"
name: "Martin Khor"
slug: "martin-khor"
description: "Martin Khor Kok Peng was a Malaysian journalist and economist. He was the executive director of the South Centre, an intergovernmental organisation of developing countries based in Geneva, from 1 March 2009 to 2018. He replaced Dr. Yash Tandon who was the executive director of the South Centre from 2005 to 2009. Khor was also the Director of the Third World Network, which is based in Penang, Malaysia."
tagline: "Malaysian journalist and economist (1951-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martin_Khor_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-11-09"
deathDate: "2020-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.937581333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4812381/"
    handle:    "nm4812381"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Khor"
    title: "Martin Khor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "مارتين خور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Khor"
    title: "Martin Khor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Khor"
    title: "Martin Khor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Khor"
    title: "Martin Khor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Khor"
    title: "Martin Khor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Khor"
    title: "Martin Khor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732830"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump