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Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs will address the Secretary's Open Forum on June 28, 2002

The Secretarys Open Forum and The Bureau of Intelligence and Research, External Research Staff, U.S. Department of State Proudly present a conversation on The State of the World: Assessing Global Sustainability Featuring Jeffrey D. Sachs Director of the Center for International Development (CID) and The Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Harvard University On Friday, June 28, 2002 - 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Loy Henderson Conference Room, Harry S Truman Building, U.S. Department of State

The Secretarys Open Forum

and

The Bureau of Intelligence and Research, External Research Staff, U.S. Department of State

Proudly present a conversation on

The State of the World: Assessing Global Sustainability

Featuring

Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director of the Center for International Development (CID) and
The Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Harvard University

Friday, June 28, 2002 - 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - Loy Henderson Conference Room, Harry S Truman Building, U.S. Department of State

About the Speaker

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of the Center for International Development (CID), former Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In January 2002 Professor Sachs was appointed by Secretary General Kofi Annan as his Special Advisor on the Millennium Development Goals. During 2000-2001, he was Chairman of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health of the World Health Organization, and from September 1999 through March 2000 he served as a member of the International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission established by the U.S. Congress. Sachs serves as an economic advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa. He also serves as Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board of The Global Competitiveness Report, and has been a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the OECD, and the United Nations Development Program. He was cited in The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and in the December 1994 Time Magazine issue on 50 promising young leaders as "the world's best-known economist." In 1997, the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur named Professor Sachs as one of the worlds 50 most important leaders on globalization. His syndicated newspaper column appears in more than 50 countries around the world, and he is a frequent contributor to major publications such as the New York Times, the Financial Times of London, and the Economist Magazine.

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