Sustainable Development Goals and Global Economic Governance - Prof Jeff Sachs
21 February 2017, 11:00 am–12:00 pm

Event Information
Open to
- All
Location
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Cruciform B304 LT1 - Gower Street
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned
professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN
advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly
newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries. He is the
co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for
environmental leadership. He has twice been named among Time Magazine's
100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York
Times, "probably the most important economist in the world," and by Time
Magazine "the world's best known economist." A recent survey by The
Economist Magazine ranked Professor Sachs as among the world's three
most influential living economists of the past decade. Professor Sachs
served as the Director of the Earth Institute from 2002 to 2016. He was
appointed University Professor at Columbia University in 2016, and also
serves as Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor
of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special
Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the
Sustainable Development Goals, and previously advised both UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the
Millennium Development Goals.
This event is a collaboration with the UCL Investment Law and Policy group and the UCL School of Public Policy and will be chaired by Dr Lauge Poulsen.
The event is open to all, please Register.