Jeffrey Sachs

Fast Facts:

  1. Full name: Jeffrey David Sachs
  2. Born: November 5, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan
  3. One of Time Magazine's world's 100 most influential people 2004 & 2005
  4. Was a Harvard University Full Professor with tenure at the age of 29
  5. Special adviser to United Nations Secretary Generals Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon
  6. Director of the UN Millennium Project 2002-2006
  7. President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending global poverty
  8. Awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2007
  9. Authored the New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty (2005), for which Bono wrote the foreward
  10. BBC Reith Lecturer, 2007
  11. Member of the Institute of Medicine and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
  12. Received the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution International Advocate for Peace Award in 2007
  13. Married to pediatrician Sonia Ehrlich Sachs and father of three children

Quotes:

  1. Millions of people die every year for the stupid reason they are too poor to stay alive… That is a plight we can end.
  2. The basic truth is that for less than a percent of the income of the rich world nobody has to die of poverty on the planet. That's really a powerful truth.
  3. If you haven't noticed, people are dying. It's an emergency
  4. Either you decide to leave people to die or you decide to do something about it.

Jeffrey Sachs, professor, economist, author and pioneer of the “shock therapy” solution to economic crises acted as an economic advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Africa, and has worked extensively with the UN. Currently Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, Sachs also spent 20 years as a professor and researcher at Harvard University.

Fast Facts:

  1. Full name: Jeffrey David Sachs

  2. Born: November 5, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan

  3. One of Time Magazine's world's 100 most influential people 2004 & 2005

  4. Was a Harvard University Full Professor with tenure at the age of 29

  5. Special adviser to United Nations Secretary Generals Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon

  6. Director of the UN Millennium Project 2002-2006

  7. President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending global poverty

  8. Awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2007

  9. Authored the New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty (2005), for which Bono wrote the foreward

  10. BBC Reith Lecturer, 2007

  11. Member of the Institute of Medicine and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research

  12. Received the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution International Advocate for Peace Award in 2007

  13. Married to pediatrician Sonia Ehrlich Sachs and father of three children

Quotes:

  1. Millions of people die every year for the stupid reason they are too poor to stay alive… That is a plight we can end.

  2. The basic truth is that for less than a percent of the income of the rich world nobody has to die of poverty on the planet. That's really a powerful truth.

  3. If you haven't noticed, people are dying. It's an emergency

  4. Either you decide to leave people to die or you decide to do something about it.

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