Jeffrey Sachs

Template:For Template:Third party Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:CS1 config Template:Infobox economist Jeffrey David Sachs (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; born November 5, 1954)<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref> is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> where he was formerly director of The Earth Institute. He worked on sustainable development and economic development.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Sachs is director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.<ref name=unsdsn.org>Template:Cite web </ref> 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 2015.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

From 2001 to 2018, Sachs was special advisor to the UN Secretary-General. Until 2016 he held a similar advisory position related to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),<ref name="UCL">"Jeffrey D. Sachs Template:Webarchive" UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. University College London. ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved July 17, 2017.</ref> eight internationally sanctioned objectives to reduce extreme poverty, hunger, and disease by 2015. In connection with the MDGs, he was appointed special adviser to the UN Secretary-General in 2002 during the term of Kofi Annan.<ref name="UCL" /><ref name="Shaw">Shaw, Adam (April 10, 2017). "UN tensions with Trump administration mount as both sides dig in ". Fox News. foxnews.com. Retrieved July 17, 2017. "Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric confirmed ... this week that Jeffrey Sachs, a world-renowned economist who has served as a senior U.N. adviser since 2002, will continue in that role."</ref>

Sachs is co-founder and chief strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger. From 2002 to 2006, he was director of the United Nations Millennium Project's work on the MDGs. In 2010, he became a commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, whose stated aim is to boost the importance of broadband internet in international policy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Sachs has written several books and received several awards. His views on economics, on the origin of COVID-19, and on the Russian invasion of Ukraine have garnered attention and criticism.<ref name=berkeley-20220320>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Col2023">Template:Cite web</ref>

Early life and education

Sachs was raised in Oak Park, Michigan, part of the Detroit metropolitan area. He is the son of Joan (née Abrams) and Theodore Sachs, a labor lawyer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Raised in a Jewish family,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Sachs graduated from Oak Park High School before attending Harvard College, where he earned his B.A. degree in Economics, summa cum laude, in 1976.<ref name="ColCV">Curriculum Vitae: Jeffrey D. Sachs - website of Columbia University</ref><ref name="CSD">Template:Cite web</ref> He continued his studies at Harvard University, receiving an M.A. degree in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1980, both in Economics.<ref name="ColCV" /><ref name="EICBio"/> During his graduate years, he was honored with an invitation to join the Harvard Society of Fellows.<ref name="nyt270693"/>

Academic career

Harvard University

Sachs joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor in 1980 and was promoted to associate professor in 1982. A year later, at age 28, he became a tenured professor of economics at Harvard.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

During the next 19 years, Sachs became the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade,<ref name="ContempAuthors">"Jeffrey D. Sachs." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2016. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, July 19, 2017.</ref> director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (1995–1999), and director of the Center for International Development at Harvard Kennedy School (1999–2002).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Columbia University

Sachs is the director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is university professor at Columbia University. From 2002 to 2016, Sachs was director of the Earth Institute of Columbia University,<ref name="UCL"/><ref name="CSD"/><ref name="Surkes Davidovich Fabian 2022">Template:Cite web</ref> a university-wide organization with an interdisciplinary approach to addressing complex issues facing the Earth, in support of sustainable development.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Sachs's classes are taught at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Mailman School of Public Health, and his course "Challenges of Sustainable Development" is taught at the undergraduate level.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Scholarship, consulting, and activism

Sachs has advised several countries on economic policy.<ref name="Chotiner 2023"/><ref name="Hvistendahl 2021">Template:Cite web</ref>

Bolivia

Before the 1985 Bolivian general election, Hugo Banzer asked Sachs to advise him on an anti-inflation plan to implement if he was elected. Sachs's stabilization plan centered on price deregulation, particularly for oil, along with cuts to the national budget. Sachs said his plan could end Bolivian hyperinflation, which had reached up to 14,000%, in a single day.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Primary source inline Banzer lost the election to Víctor Paz Estenssoro, but Sachs's plan was still implemented. Inflation quickly stabilized in Bolivia.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Sachs's suggestion for reducing inflation was to apply fiscal and monetary disciplineTemplate:Clarify and end economic regulation that protected the elitesTemplate:Clarify and blocked the free market.Template:Clarify Hyperinflation reduced within weeks after the Bolivian government implemented his suggestions and the government settled its $3.3 billion debt to international lenders for about 11 cents on the dollar. At the time, this was about 85% of Bolivia's GDP.<ref name="nyt270693" /><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Advising in post-communist economies

In 1989, Sachs advised Poland's anticommunist Solidarity movement and the government of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. He wrote a comprehensive plan for the transition from central planning to a market economy that was incorporated into Poland's reform program, led by Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz. Sachs was the main architect of Poland's debt reduction operation. He and IMF economist David Lipton advised on the rapid conversion of all property and assets from public to private ownership. Closure of many uncompetitive factories ensued.<ref name="Hardy 2009">Template:Cite book</ref> In Poland, Sachs was firmly on the side of rapid transition to capitalism. At first, he proposed U.S.-style corporate structures, with professional managers answering to many shareholders and a large economic role for stock markets. That did not sit well with the Polish authorities, but he then proposed that large blocks of the shares of privatized companies be placed in the hands of private banks.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> As a result, there were some economic shortages and inflation, but prices in Poland eventually stabilized.<ref name="Foreign Affairs">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref> In 1999, the government of Poland awarded Sachs one of its highest honors, the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit.<ref name="EICBio"/> He received an honorary doctorate from the Kraków University of Economics.<ref name="ContempAuthors"/> After Poland's success, his advice was sought by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his successor, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, on the transition of the USSR/Russia to a market economy.<ref name=":2" />

Sachs's methods for stabilizing economies became known as shock therapy and were similar to successful approaches used in Germany after the two world wars.<ref name="nyt270693" /> He faced criticism after the Russian economy underwent significant struggles after adopting the market-based shock therapy in the early 1990s.<ref name=McClintick>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="ds101120">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":0">Template:Citation</ref>

Work on global economic development

Since his work in post-communist countries, Sachs has turned to global issues of economic development, poverty alleviation, health and aid policy, and environmental sustainability. He has written extensively on climate change, disease control, and globalization. Since 1995, he has been engaged in efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> According to New York Magazine,

Sachs's ambitions are hard to overstate... "His ultimate goal is to change the world—to 'bend history', as he once said, quoting Robert F. Kennedy", wrote Nina Munk in The Idealist, a biography of Sachs. By the early aughts, he had risen from wonky academic to celebrity public intellectual. According to Munk, people in Sachs's inner circle affectionately called him a "shit disturber", someone whose ego was offset by a selfless genius and a penchant for challenging orthodoxies. "There's a certain messianic quality about him", George Soros, one of his patrons, told Munk.<ref name="Walsh 2023"/>

Sachs at a UN meeting in 2009

Sachs suggests that with improved seeds, irrigation and fertilizer, the crop yields in Africa and other places with subsistence farming can be increased from 1 ton per hectare to 3 to 5 tons per hectare. He said that increased harvests would significantly increase subsistence farmers' income, reducing poverty. Sachs does not believe that increased aid is the only solution. He also supports establishing credit and microloan programs, which are often lacking in impoverished areas.<ref name="UUNCDF">Template:Cite web</ref>

He is founding editor of the World Happiness Report.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), which he directs, operates in more than a dozen African countries and covers more than half a million people. Its critics have questioned both the project's design and claims made for its success. In 2012, The Economist reviewed the project and concluded, "the evidence does not yet support the claim that the millennium villages project is making a decisive impact".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Critics have said that the program did not include suitable controls to allow an accurate determination of whether its methods were responsible for any observed gains in economic development. A 2012 Lancet paper claiming a threefold increase in the rate of decline in childhood mortality was criticized for flawed methodology; the authors later admitted that the claim was "unwarranted and misleading".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In her 2013 book The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, journalist Nina Munk concluded that the MVP was a failure.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

After the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, Sachs chaired the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (2000–2001), which played a pivotal role in scaling up the financing of health care and disease control in the low-income countries to support MDGs 4, 5 and 6. He worked with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000–2001 to design and launch The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.<ref name="Mountains Beyond Mountains">Template:Cite book</ref> He also worked with senior George W. Bush administration officials to develop the PEPFAR program to fight HIV/AIDS and the PMI to fight malaria. On Annan's behalf, from 2002 to 2006 he chaired the UN Millennium Project, which was tasked with developing a concrete action plan to achieve the MDGs. The UN General Assembly adopted the UN Millennium Project's key recommendations at a special session in 2005.

Sachs was previously a special adviser to UN Secretary-General António Guterres.<ref name="UCL"/><ref name="Shaw"/> In his capacity as a special adviser at the UN, Sachs has frequently met with foreign dignitaries and heads of state. He developed a friendship with Bono and Angelina Jolie, who traveled to Africa with him to witness the progress of the Millennium Villages.<ref name="Walsh 2023"/>

Sachs with Nigerian journalist Adebola Williams in 2019

During the Greek government-debt crisis in 2015, Sachs, Heiner Flassbeck, Thomas Piketty, Dani Rodrik, and Simon Wren-Lewis published an open letter to Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel urging her to rethink her government's policy of austerity.<ref name="FT2">Template:Cite web</ref>

Sachs is one of the founders of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project.<ref name=NYT120115>Template:Cite news</ref>

In June 2025, Sachs attended the Forum of the Future 2050 in Moscow, a conference organised by Konstantin Malofeev.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Views and commentary

Nuclear power

In 2012 Sachs said that nuclear power is the only solution to climate change. In 2021, he suggested that carbon neutrality could be achieved without nuclear power by mid-century if rapid technological development continues.<ref name="Harvey 2012">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

China

According to Stuart Lau and Luanna Muniz writing in Politico, Sachs is a "longtime advocate of dismantling American hegemony and embracing the rise of China."<ref name="Lau 2022">Template:Cite web</ref> He said the term "genocide" is mistaken in relation to the persecution of the Uyghurs in China.<ref name="Chotiner 2023"/> He has argued for closer relations between the US and China and warned of the danger of tensions between them.<ref name="Schulze 2020">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Lee 2022">Template:Cite web</ref>

US-Israeli politics

Sachs has said that the United States is "complicit in Israeli genocide" and could halt the conflict by freezing military aid to Israel.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In a video clip shared by Donald Trump, Sachs criticized what he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s "obsessive" efforts to drag the United States into war with Iran through pro-Israel lobbying.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Venezuela

A 2019 report by Sachs and Mark Weisbrot, published by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, states that a 31% rise in the number of deaths between 2017 and 2018 was due to the sanctions imposed on Venezuela in 2017 and that 40,000 people in Venezuela may have died as a result.<ref name=Independent>Template:Cite news</ref> The report states: "The sanctions are depriving Venezuelans of lifesaving medicines, medical equipment, food, and other essential imports."<ref name= Independent/> Weisbrot said the authors "could not prove those excess deaths were the result of sanctions, but said the increase ran parallel to the imposition of the measures and an attendant fall in oil production."<ref name= Independent/>

A United States Department of State spokesperson said, "as the writers themselves concede, the report is based on speculation and conjecture."<ref name= Independent/> Ricardo Hausmann, a Harvard economist who was adviser to then Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, said the analysis was flawed because it made invalid assumptions about Venezuela based on Colombia: "taking what happened in Colombia since 2017 as a counterfactual for what would have happened in Venezuela if there had been no financial sanctions makes no sense." Calling it "sloppy reasoning", Hausmann also said the analysis failed to rule out other explanations or correctly account for PDVSA finances.<ref name=DontBlame>Template:Cite news</ref>

COVID-19

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Sachs said the COVID-19 lab leak theory, which posited the SARS-CoV-2 virus was released from a Chinese laboratory, was "reckless and dangerous," and said that right-wing politicians pointing fingers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology could "push the world to conflict... Neither the biology nor chronology support the laboratory-release story".<ref name="Walsh 2023">Template:Cite web</ref>

In spring 2020, Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, appointed Sachs as chair of its COVID-19 Commission, whose goals were to provide recommendations for public health policy and improve the practice of medicine.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name= "telegraph" >Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Cohen 2022 pp. 126–126">Template:Cite journal</ref> Sachs set up a number of task forces, including one on the origins of the virus. Sachs appointed British American disease ecologist Peter Daszak, a colleague of Sachs's at Columbia, to head this task force, two weeks after the Trump administration prematurely ended a federal grant supporting a project led by Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, which worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<ref name="Walsh 2023"/> Sachs later came to believe that Daszak had a conflict of interest due to his connections to the Wuhan lab and the nature of the lab's research. Richard Ebright, chemical biologist at Rutgers University, called the commission an "entirely Potemkin commission" in the conservative National Review. As Sachs became increasingly drawn to the lab leak theory, he came into conflict with Daszak and his task force. Daszak left as chair of the taskforce in June 2021 and Sachs disbanded the group in September that year.<ref name="Walsh 2023"/>

In July 2022, Sachs said he was "pretty convinced," though "not sure" that COVID-19 came out of U.S. lab biotechnology, which is considered by the European Union to be COVID-19 disinformation by China. While Sachs has leanings toward the possibility of a virus leak from a U.S.-backed laboratory research program, he has stated that "A natural spillover is also possible, of course. Both hypotheses are viable at this stage."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In August 2022, Sachs appeared on the podcast of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. where he said that officials such as Anthony Fauci were not being honest about the origins of COVID.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In September 2022, the Lancet commission published a wide-ranging report on the pandemic, stating that the origins of the virus remain unknown. "There are two leading hypotheses: that the virus emerged as a zoonotic spillover from wildlife or a farm animal, possibly through a wet market, in a location that is still undetermined; or that the virus emerged from a research-related incident, during the field collection of viruses or through a laboratory-associated escape. Commissioners held diverse views about the relative probabilities of the two explanations, and both possibilities require further scientific investigation."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Russian invasion of Ukraine

At MCC Budapest Peace Forum 2023

In May 2022, Sachs said that the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in February 2022, would be hard to beat and that Finland's moves to join NATO would undermine a negotiated peace: "All of this talk of defeating Russia, to my mind, is reckless."<ref name="Ng 2022">Template:Cite web</ref> In June 2022, he co-signed an open letter calling for a "ceasefire" in the war, questioning Western countries' continuing military support for Ukraine.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Sachs has suggested that the U.S. was responsible for the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline. In February 2023, he was invited by the Russian government to address the United Nations Security Council about the topic.<ref name="Lederer 2023">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Chotiner 2023">Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In February 2025 Sachs delivered a speech at the European Parliament, during an event titled 'The Geopolitics of Peace' hosted by MEP Michael von der Schulenburg in which he urged Europe to break free from U.S. influence and chart its own foreign policy path.Template:Refn

Reception

Economics

Sachs's policies for the global eradication of extreme poverty have been the subject of controversy.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Nina Munk, author of the 2013 book The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, says that "sometimes good intentions have left people even worse off than before".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Vice2020">Template:Cite web</ref> Stephan Richter, editor-in-chief at The Globalist, and James D. Bindenagel, a former U.S. ambassador, wrote that "In his books and articles, Jeff Sachs has done much to frame and popularize the language and thinking to push a sustainable development agenda on the world stage. That is an achievement in which he can rightfully take considerable pride".<ref name="theg_Jeffrey_Sachs" />

Sachs with Brazilian economist Aloizio Mercadante in Brazil, May 23, 2022

William Easterly, a professor of economics at New York University, reviewed The End of Poverty for the Washington Post, calling Sachs's poverty eradication plan "a sort of Great Leap Forward".<ref name="WPost">Template:Cite web</ref> According to Easterly's cross-country statistical analysis in his book The White Man's Burden, from 1985 to 2006, "When we control both for initial poverty and for bad government, it is bad government that explains the slower growth. We cannot statistically discern any effect of initial poverty on subsequent growth once we control for bad government. This is still true if we limit the definition of bad government to corruption alone." Easterly deems the massive aid proposed by Sachs to be ineffective, as its effect will be hampered by bad governance and/or corruption.<ref name="Easterly Easterly 2006">Template:Cite book</ref>

Commenting on Sachs's $120 million effort to aid Africa, American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux says these temporary measures failed to create sustained improvements. Theroux focuses on a project in a sparsely populated community of nomadic camel herders in Dertu, Kenya, funded by Sachs's Millennium Villages Project, which cost Template:USD million over a three-year period. Theroux says that the project's latrines were clogged and overflowing, the dormitories it built quickly became dilapidated, and the livestock market it established ignored local customs and was shut down within a few months. He says that an angry Dertu citizen filed a 15-point written complaint against Sachs's operation, claiming it "created dependence" and that "the project is supposed to be bottom top approached but it is visaTemplate:Sic versa."<ref name="barr_Africa's_Aid">Template:Cite web</ref>

According to the Canadian journalist Naomi Klein, Jeffrey Sachs is one of the architects of "disaster capitalism" after his recommendations in Bolivia, Poland and Russia led to millions of people ending up in the streets.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

China

In December 2018, Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer of Huawei, was arrested in Canada at the request of the U.S., which was seeking her extradition to face charges of allegedly violating sanctions against Iran. Soon after Meng's arrest, Sachs wrote an article in which he said her arrest was part of efforts to contain China and accused the U.S. of hypocrisy for seeking her extradition. He wrote that none of the executives of several U.S. companies which had been fined for sanctions violations were arrested. After he was criticized for the article, Sachs closed his Twitter account, which had 260,000 followers.<ref name="bloo_Columbia's_Jeffrey">Template:Cite news</ref> Isaac Stone Fish, a senior fellow at Asia Society, wrote that Sachs had written a foreword to a Huawei position paper, and asked if Sachs had been paid by Huawei. Sachs said he had not been paid for the work.<ref name="bloo_Columbia's_Jeffrey" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In June 2020, Sachs said the targeting of Huawei by the US was not solely about security.<ref name="bbc210620">Template:Cite news</ref> In their 2020 book Hidden Hand, Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg commented on one of Sachs's articles in which he said the U.S. government maligned Huawei under hypocritical pretenses. Hamilton and Ohlberg wrote that Sachs's article would be more meaningful and influential if he did not have a close relationship with Huawei, including his previous endorsement of the company's "vision of our shared digital future." The authors also allege that Sachs has ties to a number of Chinese state bodies and the private energy corporation CEFC China Energy for which he has spoken.<ref name="Hamilton Ohlberg 2020">Template:Cite book</ref>

During a January 2021 interview, when questioned about China's repression of Uyghur people, Sachs referred to human rights abuses committed by the U.S. and alluded to Jesus' parable of The Mote and the Beam.<ref name="axio_Rights_groups">Template:Cite web</ref> Eighteen advocacy organizations jointly wrote a letter to Columbia University questioning Sachs's comments.<ref name="axio_Rights_groups" /> The letter's signatories wrote that Sachs took the same stance as China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a digression to the history of U.S. rights violations as a way to avoid discussions of China's mistreatment of Uyghurs.<ref name="axio_Rights_groups" /> Stephan Richter, editor-in-chief at The Globalist, and J.D. Bindenagel, a former U.S. ambassador, wrote that Sachs was "actively agitating(!) for a classic Communist propaganda ploy".<ref name="theg_Jeffrey_Sachs">Template:Cite web</ref>

Russian invasion of Ukraine

In March 2023, a group of 340 economists published an open letter to "address some of the historical misrepresentations and logical fallacies" that they said were contained in Sach's arguments regarding the Russo-Ukrainian war.<ref name=berkeley-20220320/><ref name="Col2023"/>

Personal life

Sachs lives in New York City with his wife Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, a pediatrician. They have three children.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Awards and honors

In 2004 and 2005, Sachs was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time. He was also named one of the "500 Most Influential People in the Field of Foreign Policy" by the World Affairs Councils of America.<ref name="BBC">Template:Cite web</ref>

In 1993, the New York Times called Sachs "probably the most important economist in the world."<ref name="nyt270693">Template:Cite news</ref> In 2005, Sachs received the Sargent Shriver Award for Equal Justice. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honor bestowed by the government of India.<ref name="Padma Awards">Template:Cite web</ref> Also in 2007, he received the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution International Advocate for Peace Award and the Centennial Medal from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for his contributions to society.<ref name="EICBio">Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2007, Sachs received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

From 2000 to 2001, Sachs was chairman of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> of the World Health Organization (WHO) and from 1999 to 2000 he was a member of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission established by the United States Congress. Sachs has been an adviser to the WHO, the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations Development Program. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Society of Fellows, the Fellows of the World Econometric Society, the Brookings Panel of Economists, the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Board of Advisers of the Chinese Economists Society, among other international organizations.<ref name="EICBio" /> Sachs is also the first holder of the Royal Professor Ungku Aziz Chair in Poverty Studies at the Centre for Poverty and Development Studies at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 2007–2009. He holds an honorary professorship at the Universidad del Pacifico in Peru. He has lectured at the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford and Yale University and in Tel Aviv University and Jakarta.<ref name="EICBio" />

In September 2008, Vanity Fair ranked Sachs 98th on its list of 100 members of the New Establishment. In July 2009, Sachs became a member of the Netherlands Development Organization's International Advisory Board.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> In 2009, Princeton University's American Whig-Cliosophic Society awarded Sachs the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2016, Sachs became president of the Eastern Economic Association, succeeding Janet Currie.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2017, Sachs and his wife were the joint recipients of the first World Sustainability Award.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2015, Sachs was awarded the Blue Planet Prize for his contributions to solving global environmental problems.<ref name="bpa">Template:Cite web</ref>

In May 2017 Sachs was awarded the Boris Mints Institute Prize for Research of Strategic Policy Solutions to Global Challenges.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2022 Sachs was awarded the Tang Prize in the category of sustainable development.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Publications

Sachs writes a monthly foreign affairs column for Project Syndicate, a nonprofit association of newspapers that circulates in 145 countries.<ref name="PS">Template:Cite web</ref>

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