Mon, 04/01/2010 - 13:32 — jsancho
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Areas: Economics, Development. USA

Jeffrey Sachs is an American economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York. He is also professor at the School of International Affairs and Politics at Columbia University and the School of Public Health.
 
He is an advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and founder and co-president of Millennium Promise Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger.
 
Among his numerous publications, “The End of Poverty” and “Common Wealth”, both New York Times best-sellers, are particularly noteworthy.