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 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 internationally
renowned for advising governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the
former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa on economic reforms and for his
work with international agencies to promote poverty reduction, disease
control, and debt reduction of poor countries. 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. He is author of hundreds of scholarly articles and many
books. Sachs was recently elected into the Institute of Medicine and is
a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior
to joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty years at Harvard
University, most recently as Director of the Center for International
Development. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Sachs received his B.A.,
M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard University.
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