जेफ़री सैक्स Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs was born in Detroit in 1954. He took tenure at Harvard at 28 and advised Bolivia, Poland and Russia on their way out of crisis. He directed Columbia’s Earth Institute from 2002 to 2016. He leads the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and is a University Professor at Columbia.
Curated by Nikhil Sharma: a Harvard economist who took tenure at 28 and fought hyperinflation in Bolivia. He has advised three UN Secretaries-General. He co-edits the World Happiness Report and now argues openly that India will be the world’s largest economy in this century.
- 28 Tenured at Harvard: Harvard professor of economics at an unusually young age
- 3 UN Secretaries-General advised: Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon and António Guterres
- 2012 World Happiness Report: Founding co-editor with John Helliwell and Richard Layard
- 2007 Padma Bhushan: One of India’s highest civilian honours
The facts
- Born
- 5 November 1954 in Detroit, Michigan (Wikipedia: Jeffrey Sachs)
- Education
- BA summa cum laude (1976), MA (1978) and PhD (1980) in economics. All at Harvard (Wikipedia: Jeffrey Sachs)
- Now
- University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia. President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN: Jeffrey Sachs)
- UN roles
- Special adviser to Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon and António Guterres. Now an SDG Advocate (Columbia University: Jeffrey D. Sachs CV (2022))
- Vatican
- Full member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences since October 2021 (Crux via Angelus (4 November 2021))
- Honours
- Padma Bhushan (2007). Blue Planet Prize (2015). Tang Prize in Sustainable Development (2022) (Wikipedia: Jeffrey Sachs)
- Recognition
- Named to the TIME 100 in 2004 and 2005 (Wikipedia: Jeffrey Sachs)
- Honorary degrees
- 42 honorary doctorates (SDSN: Jeffrey Sachs)
- Family
- Married to Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, a paediatrician. Three children (Wikipedia: Jeffrey Sachs)
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