Jeffrey Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University

For the past decade Jeffrey Sachs has played an outstanding role in the debate over global economics. He has advised governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Africa on economic reforms and has worked with international agencies to promote poverty reduction, disease control, and debt reduction of poor countries. Sachs is special advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals.