- A University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016
Jeffrey D. Sachs
- A University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016
- 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
- He has been Special Advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary General António Guterres
- Spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, where he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees
- Received 42 honorary doctorates
