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What is Sustainable Development and How Can We Achieve It?

LSE public lecture in association with the LSESU Energy Society


The world has agreed to adopt Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to guide global development after 2015. Professor Jeffrey Sachs will discuss the choice of SDGs and a policy and normative framework to achieve them.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 80 countries. He has twice been named among Time magazine's 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York Times, "probably the most important economist in the world," and by Time magazine "the world's best known economist." A recent survey by The Economist magazine ranked Professor Sachs as among the world's three most influential living economists of the past decade.

Professor Sachs serves as the director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and professor of health policy and management at Columbia University. He is special advisor to United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan. He is co-founder and chief strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director of the Millennium Villages Project. He has authored three New York Times bestsellers in the past seven years: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011).


Speaker(s):

Professor Jeffrey D Sachs | talks

 

Date and Time:

13 March 2013 at 12:45 pm

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

 

Venue:

New Theatre
East Building
London School of Economics and Political Science
London
WC2A 2AE


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Organised by:

London School of Economics & Political Science
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Tickets:

FREE

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This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required, only one ticket per person can be requested.

Additional Information:

Members of the public, LSE staff, students and alumni can request one ticket via the online ticket request form which will be live on the weblisting (given below) after 10pm on Wednesday 6 March until at least 12noon on Thursday 7 March. If at 12noon we have received more requests than there are tickets available, the line will be closed, and tickets will be allocated on a random basis to those requests received. If we have received fewer requests than tickets available, the ticket line will stay open until all tickets have been allocated.

LSE students and staff are also able to collect one ticket per person from the New Academic Building SU shop, located on the Kingsway side of the building from 10.00am on Thursday 7 March. These tickets are available on a first come, first serve basis.

Event weblisting: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2013/03/20130313t1245vNT.aspx

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