Professor Jeffrey Sachs
The keynote address for the IPWSD will take place on the first day of the workshop: Friday, April 3rd, 2015.
We are pleased to announce that our keynote address will be given by Professor Jeffrey Sachs. Professor Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, and Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University. He is also Co-Director of the Ph.D. Program in Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
Complete biographical information for Prof. Sachs is available on the Earth Institute’s website, as either a short bio [here] or full bio [here].