Jeffrey Sachs is one of the foremost experts on the economics of poverty. He is director of the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and professor of health policy and management at Columbia University. He is also special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002-06, Sachs was director of the U.N. Millennium Project and special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease and hunger by 2015. Sachs is also president and co-founder of Millennium Promise, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty. He is the author of Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008) and The End of Poverty. Contact through Kyu-Young Lee at the Earth Institute.
| Website | http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/1804 |
| Email address | klee@ei.columbia.edu |
| Phone number | 212-851-0798 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, Government & politics, Law & courts, Poverty & welfare, Race & ethnicity |
| Locations | New York, United States of America |
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| Languages | English |