Fast Facts:
- Full name: Jeffrey David Sachs
- Born: November 5, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan
- One of Time Magazine's world's 100 most influential people 2004 & 2005
- Was a Harvard University Full Professor with tenure at the age of 29
- Special adviser to United Nations Secretary Generals Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon
- Director of the UN Millennium Project 2002-2006
- President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending global poverty
- Awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2007
- Authored the New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty (2005), for which Bono wrote the foreward
- BBC Reith Lecturer, 2007
- Member of the Institute of Medicine and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
- Received the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution International Advocate for Peace Award in 2007
- Married to pediatrician Sonia Ehrlich Sachs and father of three children
Quotes:
- Millions of people die every year for the stupid reason they are too poor to stay alive… That is a plight we can end.
- 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.
- If you haven't noticed, people are dying. It's an emergency
- 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:
Full name: Jeffrey David Sachs
Born: November 5, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan
One of Time Magazine's world's 100 most influential people 2004 & 2005
Was a Harvard University Full Professor with tenure at the age of 29
Special adviser to United Nations Secretary Generals Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon
Director of the UN Millennium Project 2002-2006
President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending global poverty
Awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2007
Authored the New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty (2005), for which Bono wrote the foreward
BBC Reith Lecturer, 2007
Member of the Institute of Medicine and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
Received the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution International Advocate for Peace Award in 2007
Married to pediatrician Sonia Ehrlich Sachs and father of three children
Quotes:
Millions of people die every year for the stupid reason they are too poor to stay alive… That is a plight we can end.
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.
If you haven't noticed, people are dying. It's an emergency
Either you decide to leave people to die or you decide to do something about it.
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Jeffrey Sachs Audio and Visual
YouTube Video: Interviewed on Real Time with Bill Maher (TIme 7:48), (April 25, 2008)
BBC4 Radio: Bursting at the Seams (2007)
YouTube: The Diary of Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa Pt1 | Pt2 | Pt3 (Time 20:00)
Charlie Rose: Archived Sachs Appearances
Al Jazeera: Riz Khan Interview with Jeffrey Sachs(Time 22:00) (March 16, 2007)
The Daily Show: Interview with Jeffrey Sachs(Time 5:47) (March 18, 2008)
Jeffrey Sachs Blogs and Commentaries
- The New York Times: Angelina and Jeff's Excellent Ideas (September 19, 2005)
