Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey David Sachs (born November 5, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, a Senior Advisor for the Australian-based Global Poverty Project and a Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's School of Public Health. He is Special Advisor to United N... more

Jeffrey David Sachs (born November 5, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, a Senior Advisor for the Australian-based Global Poverty Project and a Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's School of Public Health. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, and the founder and co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the United Nations Millennium Project Millennium Development Goals, eight internationally sanctioned objectives to reduce extreme poverty, hunger, and disease by the year 2015. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became renowned for implementing economic shock therapy throughout... less