Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs at the 2011 World Economic Forum
Born	(1954-11-05) November 5, 1954 (age 62) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Nationality	United States
Institution	Columbia University
Field	Political economics, International Development
School or tradition	Keynesian economics
Alma mater	Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Martin Feldstein
Doctoral students	Alberto Alesina
Influences	Paul Samuelson, John Maynard Keynes
Influenced	Nouriel Roubini
Contributions	Millennium Villages Project

Jeffrey David Sachs (/ˈsæks/; born November 5, 1954) is an American economist and director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor, the highest rank Columbia bestows on its faculty. He is known as one of the world's leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty.

Sachs is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a professor of health policy and management at Columbia's School of Public Health. He is special adviser to the former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is co-founder and chief strategist of 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's work on the Millennium Development Goals, eight internationally sanctioned objectives to reduce extreme poverty, hunger, and disease by the year 2015. He is director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Since 2010 he also served as a commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, which leverages broadband technologies as a key enabler for social and economic development. Since 1995, he is also a member of the International Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE).