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Jeffrey Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute
Jeffrey Sachs is is an American economist and co-founder and chief strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger. He is also the former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor, the highest rank that Columbia bestows on its faculty.
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Sachs encourages students to go abroad and see life as it is lived for the poor up close.
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The UN is much maligned, but vital for creating global agreements, Sachs says.
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Sachs recommends a department for international sustainable development.
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We need a mix of government, private and voluntary sectors, Sachs says.