Honored to finally have met one of the 100 most info people of the world Jeffery Sachs He wrote the book out of poverty in 2005 He showed keen interest in our work in Rehan School Korangi Campus and found it very radical and agreed to a podcast with me about getting out of poverty this week or online ! Jeffrey Sachs, an American economist, academic, and public policy analyst, played a significant role in the development of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Sachs has been a vocal advocate for the SDGs. He served as Special Advisor to three UN Secretaries-General: Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon, and António Guterres, between 2001 and 2018. His work included significant contributions to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were precursors to the SDGs. Sachs chaired the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, which supported the MDGs related to health, and played a key role in launching The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. His efforts helped shape global policies and strategies to combat poverty, disease, and promote sustainable development [oai_citation:1,Jeffrey Sachs - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs) [oai_citation:2,Jeffrey Sachs - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs).