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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jeffrey D. Sachs\nhosted by Thomas Henzinger\nAbstract
 : Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics\, leader in
  sustainable development\, senior UN advisor\, bestselling author\, and sy
 ndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100
  countries. He is the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize\, the lea
 ding global prize for environmental leadership. He has twice been named am
 ong Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by
  the New York Times\, “probably the most important economist in the worl
 d\,” and by Time magazine “the world’s best known economist.” A re
 cent survey by The Economist ranked Professor Sachs as among the world’s
  three most influential living economists of the past decade.Prior to join
 ing Columbia\, Professor Sachs spent over twenty years as a professor at H
 arvard University\, most recently as the Galen L. Stone Professor of Inter
 national Trade. He is widely considered to be one of the world’s leading
  experts on economic development\, global macroeconomics\, and the fight a
 gainst poverty. His work on ending poverty\, overcoming macroeconomic inst
 ability\, promoting economic growth\, fighting hunger and disease\, and pr
 omoting sustainable environmental practices\, has taken him to more than 1
 25 countries with more than 90 percent of the world’s population. For mo
 re than thirty years he has advised dozens of heads of state and governmen
 ts on economic strategy\, in the Americas\, Europe\, Asia\, Africa\, and t
 he Middle East.Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable 
 Development at Columbia University.  He is University Professor at Columb
 ia University\, the university’s highest academic rank.  During 2002 to
  2016 he served as the Director of the Earth Institute.  Sachs is Special
  Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sust
 ainable Development Goals\, and previously advised UN Secretary-General Ba
 n Ki-moon on both the Sustainable Development Goals and Millennium Develop
 ment Goals and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Developme
 nt Goals. Sachs is currently Director of the UN Sustainable Development So
 lutions Network under the auspices of UN Secretary-General António Guterr
 es\, and a Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Develop
 ment. He is Chair and Founder of SDG USA\, a non-governmental initiative t
 o promote the Sustainable Development Goal concepts in the United States. 
 Sachs is also co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Allian
 ce\, and was director of the Millennium Villages Project (2005-2015). He i
 s a Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Applied Systems
  Analysis in Laxenburg\, Austria.Sachs is the recipient of many awards and
  honors\, including the Blue Planet Prize\, membership in the Institute of
  Medicine\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Harvard Society of
  Fellows\, and the Fellows of the World Econometric Society. In 2017\, Sac
 hs and his wife Dr. Sonia Ehrlich Sachs were the first recipients of the W
 orld Sustainability Award of the World Sustainability Forum and Sachs was 
 the first winner of the Boris Mints Institute Prize at Tel Aviv University
 .  Sachs’ conversation with Tyler Cowen won the Quartz Podcast Award fo
 r best business/economics podcast of 2015. He has received 24 honorary deg
 rees\, and many awards and honors around the world. His syndicated newspap
 er column appears in more than 100 countries around the world\, and he is 
 a frequent contributor to major publications such as the Financial Times o
 f London\, the International Herald Tribune\, Scientific American\, and Ti
 me magazine.Sachs has authored and edited numerous books\, including three
  New York Times bestsellers: The End of Poverty (2005)\, Common Wealth: 
 Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008)\, and The Price of Civilization (2
 011).  His recent books include: To Move the World: JFK’s Quest for Pea
 ce (2013)\, The Age of Sustainable Development (2015) and Building the N
 ew American Economy: Smart\, Fair & Sustainable (2017). Free shuttle buse
 s are provided to / from campus:Regular IST Austria shuttle #142: 5:17 pm 
 from U4 Heiligenstadt/public bus stop (return from IST Austria Campus at 7
 :54 pm)Special IST Lecture shuttle 1: 5 pm from Schwedenplatz Night Bus st
 op (return from IST Austria campus at 8:15 pm) – register online!>Downl
 oad the save the date announcement here. (https://ist.ac.at/fileadmin/user
 _upload/pdfs/IST_Lectures/Sachs/Save-the-date_IST-lecture_Sachs.jpg)
LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, Central Building\, ISTA
ORGANIZER:arinya.eller@ist.ac.at
SUMMARY:Jeffrey D. Sachs: IST Science and Society Lecture
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/949
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