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Jeffrey Sachs

1954 - Today

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Jeffrey David Sachs ( SAKS; born November 5, 1954) is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, where he was formerly director of The Earth Institute. He worked on the topics of sustainable development and economic development. Sachs is director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He is an SDG Advocate for United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 global goals adopted at a UN summit meeting in September 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jeffrey Sachs is the 56th most popular economist (up from 148th in 2019), the 965th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,041st in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Jeffrey Sachs ranks 56 out of 414. Before him are Edmund Phelps, Ronald Coase, Gary Becker, Trygve Haavelmo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and Karl Polanyi. After him are Werner Sombart, Theodore Schultz, Frédéric Bastiat, Reinhard Selten, Douglass North, and William Vickrey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Jeffrey Sachs ranks 29. Before him are Kazuo Ishiguro, Oprah Winfrey, Serzh Sargsyan, Ray Liotta, Peter J. Ratcliffe, and Stieg Larsson. After him are Gianna Nannini, Jorge Jesus, Chris Gardner, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Dennis Quaid, and Annie Lennox.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeffrey Sachs ranks 965 out of 20,380. Before him are Doug Emhoff (1964), Crazy Horse (1840), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Selena (1971), Ryan O'Neal (1941), and Donald Knuth (1938). After him are Stan Kroenke (1947), Omar Bradley (1893), Anthony Perkins (1932), Art Garfunkel (1941), Louise Hay (1926), and Zoe Saldaña (1978).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Jeffrey Sachs ranks 14. Before him are Elinor Ostrom (1933), Charles Cooley (1864), Michael Porter (1947), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Edmund Phelps (1933), and Gary Becker (1930). After him are Theodore Schultz (1902), Douglass North (1920), Lawrence Klein (1920), Kenneth Arrow (1921), Thorstein Veblen (1857), and James Tobin (1918).

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