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University Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs

Director, Center for Sustainable Development (CSD), Columbia Climate School

Professor, M.P.A. in Development Practice

School of International and Public Affairs

Suite 1040
475 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10115

BIOGRAPHY: Jeffrey D. Sachs is a 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 also President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development. He has been advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

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PROJECTS

Only select projects listed below
Name Start Date End Date
Achieving Sustainable Development in the Coffee Sector
Annual Global Happiness Council Policy Report 7/1/18 8/31/19
Business Alignment with the SDGs 6/1/19 7/30/20
Collaboration between the Asian Development Bank and the Earth Institute; Policies to meet global economic challenges - Asia's perspective 3/21/12 11/30/16
Consultancy Agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Earth Institute 3/24/10 3/23/13
Consultancy Agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Earth Institute II 6/15/12 6/14/13
Consultancy Agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Earth Institute III 12/5/13 12/4/14
Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project 1/1/15 12/31/15
Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP)-IDDRI Subgrant 5/1/15 8/31/15
Energy Programming NYC 3/24/10 3/23/13
Kapuscinski Development Lecture in New York City 8/25/15 12/31/15
Masters of Development Practice 9/1/08 2/28/15
Memorandum of Understanding - Emirates Competitiveness Council 8/1/13 12/31/13
Merry Year Agreement Gumulira Millennium Village Project 1/1/13 12/31/15
Norwegian contribution to ministerial Working Group on Scaling up Health Systems in low-Income Settings To Achieve the MDGS 12/15/09 12/31/15
Postkodstiftelsen funding for SDSN 3/1/13 12/31/14
Renewal: General Operating Support for the Center for Sustainable Development 1/29/18 1/31/21
Renewal: General Operating Support for the Center for Sustainable Development 1/29/18 12/31/21
Research to Engage Religious Communities in Sustainable Development - Climate Change and Sustainable 9/1/14 12/31/17
Science-Based Policy Innovation and Implementation for the MDGs 10/1/06 12/31/11
SDSN - Networks 7/1/15 6/30/16
Subgrant to support the Annual World Happiness Report 1/30/17 11/30/19
SDSN-Earth Institute Ericsson collaboration on ICT for Post-2015 Sustainable Development 1/1/15 6/15/16
Sovereign Debt Crises in the US and the Eurozone: Potential Regional Impacts on Asia 12/7/12 2/21/13
Sustainable Business Practices in the Food Sector: Business in Action 3/1/19 2/28/21
Sustainable Development in Mali: Improving the livelihoods of rural poor in the drylands of the Sahel through the management and enrichment of local plant diversity 1/1/09 12/31/13
Sustainable Development Solutions Network 12/1/14 12/31/15
Sustainable Development Solutions Network 7/1/15 10/31/15
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) 11/1/15 10/31/17
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Financing Sustainable Development 11/9/15 1/8/16
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) USA SDG Initiative 9/1/15 8/31/16
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), USA SDG Initiative 7/1/15 6/30/16
Sustainable Development Solutions Network partnership with USAID to take solutions to scale 9/1/14 12/1/14
Sustainable Development Solutions Network -Proposal for GIZ 9/1/13 6/30/15
The achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan African Countries and Beyond technologies and tools 11/1/11 12/31/16
The Global Master's of Development Practice Programs Secretariat 12/1/10 7/31/13
The Sustainable Development Solutions Network 7/1/15 6/30/17
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency support for SDSN 4/1/13 6/30/17
TIMOR-LESTE INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 5/1/10 2/29/12
UNICEF and Columbia University's Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute Working as Partners on the Design and Development of a Foundational learning Program on "Meeting Children's rights in urban settings" 7/1/19 6/30/22
World Happiness Report 2015, Happiness and Wellbeing Research 1/1/15 12/31/15
Global Council for Happiness and Well-being 11/1/19 4/30/22
General Operating Support for the Center for Sustainable Development 2/1/21 12/31/23
Sustainable Business Practices in the Food Sector: Business in Action, Phase 2 of Fixing the Business Food Project 6/1/21 12/1/21
Economic Recovery from Disasters Training Program 10/1/16 3/31/21

CONTACT

sachs@columbia.edu

212-870-2762

EXPERTISE

economics economic development climate change sustainable development