Professor Jeffrey Sachs is the director of the Earth Institute of Columbia University, a professor of sustainable development and a professor of health policy and management. He is now a special adviser to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he served as the host of the United Nations Millennium Project and served as the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. Annan's special adviser on the Millennium Development Goals, which are a series of international understandings aimed at eliminating extreme poverty, disease and hunger by 20 15. He is also the co-founder and chairman of the Millennium Commitment Alliance, a non-profit organization to eradicate poverty worldwide.
Professor Sachs was regarded as the most important international economic adviser at that time. In more than 20 years, he faced a series of challenges of economic development, poverty eradication and globalization, and promoted policies to help people all over the world benefit from economic growth and welfare. He is also the main advocate of encouraging the combination of economic development and environmental sustainability. As the director of the Earth Institute, he vigorously promotes the mitigation of human-induced climate change.
As an economic adviser to the governments of Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union countries, Asia and Africa, he cooperated with international organizations in poverty eradication, debt relief and disease control, which won him an international reputation.
In April, 2004 and April, 2005, Professor Sachs was selected as "the most influential person in the world 100" by Time magazine for two consecutive years. In February 2002, Nature magazine said that Sachs "opened a new public health thinking through his financial thought". 1993 The New York Times, a The New York Times supplement, called saxophone "probably the most important economist in the world" and Time magazine called him "the most famous economist in the world" among the "50 most promising young leaders". 1997, a French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur called him "one of the 50 most important globalization leaders in the world". His columns have appeared in newspapers in more than 90 countries, and he often writes for Financial Times, Scientific American and Time Weekly.
He has independently or cooperatively completed more than 200 academic papers and written or edited many books, including The New York Times's best-selling book The End of Poverty.
From 1986 to 1990, Sachs, as an adviser to the Bolivian President, designed and implemented a stabilization plan, which reduced the annual inflation rate in Bolivia from 40,000% to 10%. He is also one of the designers of Bolivia's debt repurchase program, which successfully reduced the debt of Bolivia's commercial banks by half, which was the first debt reduction case in the 1980s. Bolivia's debt repurchase case is a milestone in solving the debt crisis of developing countries.
1988- 1990 saxophone provides suggestions for the financial reforms of the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela.
From 65438 to 0989, Saks was invited to prepare a radical economic transformation plan as an economic reform consultant of Polish Solidarity Trade Union Movement. After August 1989, it provided suggestions for the radical economic reform of the first post-* * capitalist government in Poland in 199 1. 1999 65438+ 10, saxophone was awarded the Knights Cross of Poland, which is a high-level national honor awarded by Poland and China to foreign friends. From the autumn of 199 1 to the autumn of 1994 1, Sachs led a team of economic advisers to provide advice to Russian President Yeltsin on a series of issues, including maintaining macroeconomic stability, privatization, market liberalization and international financial relations. He also established a private research institution-Economic Analysis Society in Moscow.
In 199 1 and 1992, Sachs suggested that the Slovenian and Estonian governments introduce new national currencies respectively. The monetary reforms in these two countries successfully ended hyperinflation and re-stabilized their currencies. From 199 1 to 1993, he also provided suggestions for the Mongolian government's economic reform and privatization plan.
From 1995 to 2002, Sachs led the major economic development research institutions of Harvard University, including the Institute for International Development of Harvard University (1995-99) and the Center for International Development of Harvard University (1999-2000).
From 2000 to 20001year, Sachs was the chairman of the world health organization's macroeconomic and health Committee, during which he vigorously advocated and implemented the establishment of the global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. At the International AIDS Conference in July 2000, he first proposed the establishment of a global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
From 2002 to 2006, Professor Sachs served as the special adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, which are a series of understandings reached by international countries aimed at eliminating extreme poverty, disease and hunger by 20 15. During this period, he presided over the United Nations Millennium Plan and mapped out a road map to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. At the United Nations Summit held in September 2005, governments adopted many core recommendations of the Millennium Plan.
Professor Sachs' current academic fields include the relationship between health and development, economic geography, poverty eradication, globalization, international financial markets, international economic policy coordination, emerging markets, economic development and growth, global competition and macroeconomic policies of developed and developing countries.
In July, 2002, Professor Sachs began to work at Columbia University. Before that, he studied and worked at Harvard University for more than twenty years.
Saxophone 1954 was born in Detroit. 1976 received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, and then received a master's degree and a doctor's degree from Harvard University at 1978 and 1980 respectively. 1980 started as an assistant professor at Harvard University and was promoted to associate professor two years later. 1983 was promoted to professor at the age of 29.
His works include: The Economics of Stagflation in the World (co-authored with Michael Bruno, 1985), Global Connection: Macroeconomic Interdependence and Cooperation in the World Economy (co-authored with Warwick McKibbin, 199 1 year), and The Road to Recovery in Peru (.
In 2005, Saks published The End of Poverty, which was translated into many languages and once became a bestseller.