Jeffery+D.+Sachs

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=Jeffery D. Sachs=

Earth Institute at Columbia University Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Location (traveling from): New York Contact Information: hkleedtke@ei.columbia.edu Heidi Kleedtke, Mr. Sach’s Assistant Availability: **Unavailable** Cost: Conference Topic Emphasis: Education Background Information: Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Director of the [|UN Millennium Project] and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of [|Millennium Promise Alliance], a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty. He is widely considered to be the leading international economic advisor of his generation. For more than 20 years Professor Sachs has been in the forefront of the challenges of economic development, poverty alleviation, and enlightened globalization, promoting policies to help all parts of the world to benefit from expanding economic opportunities and wellbeing. He is also one of the leading voices for combining economic development with environmental sustainability, and as Director of the Earth Institute leads large-scale efforts to promote the mitigation of human-induced climate change. In 2004 and 2005 he was named among the [|100 most influential]leaders in the world by Time Magazine, and is the 2005 recipient of the Sargent Shriver Award for Equal Justice.