Jeffrey Sachs

"The End of Poverty"

Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006
3 p.m.
Ohio Union West Ballroom
1739 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43210

Co-sponsored by First Year Experience.

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Jeffrey Sachs is the 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 U.N. 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 also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty. He 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 Sachs 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, including New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty (Penguin, 2005).

Sachs is a member of the Institute of Medicine and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has received many honorary degrees, most recently from Trinity College Dublin, the College of the Atlantic, Southern Methodist University, Simon Fraser University and McGill University.

Prior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent more than 20 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.

Jeffrey Sachs
Director,
U.N. Millennium Project
Director,
Earth Institute
Columbia University