Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development
at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is
President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of
Engineers for the Energy Transition, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for
Development, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, and Tan
Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University. He has been Special
Advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate
under Secretary General António Guterres.