Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs is a renowned American economist, expert on global development, professor at Columbia University, former director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and special adviser to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Born in Michigan in 1954, Sachs earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University and became a young professor at the age of 29. A former chairman of the World Health Organization's Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, he has been an economic adviser to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa, and is the father of shock therapy. He is director of the United Nations Millennium Project and Special Adviser to former United Nations Secretaris-General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, a global plan to dramatically reduce extreme poverty, disease and hunger by 2015. In 2004 and 2005, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. The New York Times also praised him as" The world's most famous economist. . He was also included by the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur in its list of the world's 50 most important leaders. Sachs, who has published more than 100 scholarly works, is widely regarded as an authority on international economic issues of his time, and he is an important pioneer in advocating the harmonization of economic and ecological development. Sachs has received numerous awards and honors, including fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Research Institute, and Fellow of the World Econometrics Association. He is a member of the Brookings Economists Group, the Advisory Board of the Chinese Economists Association, and many other organizations. He received honorary degrees from the University of St. Gallen in Sweden in 1990, from the University of Pacifico in Peru in 1997, from Lingnan College in Hong Kong in 1998, from Varna University of Economics in Bulgaria in May 2000, and from Iona University in New York. Jeffrey Sachs 'research interests include the relationship between health and development, economic geography, globalization, the transition to a market economy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, international macroeconomic policy coordination in international financial markets, primary markets, economic development and growth, global competitiveness, and macroeconomic policy in developing and developed countries. Sachs is the author of two landmark books on enlightened, sustainable global development. The economics of shared wealth on a crowded planet reminds us that unless we adopt a new economic model - inclusive, cooperative, environmentally friendly - the global economy will collapse. In his New York Times bestseller, The End of Poverty: The Economic Possibilities of Today, Sachs offers a broad view of the key to economic success in the modern world. Sachs has kept an eye on America's international relations, and in addition to angrily denouncing Trumpism, Sachs has proposed a series of progressive policy solutions that he believes can put all people, not just Americans, first.