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Follow live SDG Academys Meet our Leaders Series COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog Jeffrey Sachs was co-chair of the International Commission on Education for Sustainable Development Practice, which recommended the MPA in Development Practice (MPA-DP) be created. SIPA’s MPA-DP program is a new approach to development education. The program trains practitioners to design, implement, and manage integrated approaches to sustainable development. Drawing on the extraordinary educational and research facilities of Columbia University, the MPA-DP emphasizes practical knowledge, skills, and opportunities in the field. “We are not spectators of development. We are participants. We learn, we reflect and we act to bring about positive change.” Prof. Jeff Sachs on the MPA-DP Program Tune in today, October 6 at 9:00 a.m. EST for a live webinar session with Professor Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University! Ask questions, get answers in real-time! Hear about the topics he cares about, his personal journey into the field of sustainable development, and how you can get involved to make a difference! Send us questions beforehand at sdgacademy@unsdsn.org to make sure they’re answered! Join the live event by clicking here: http://bit.ly/MoLOct2016 Event number: 959 977 985 Event password: Leaders2030 Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist. Professor Sachs is the Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). He serves as Director of the Earth Institute’s Center for Sustainable Development, 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, and held the same position under former Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is the co-founder and director of the Millennium Villages Project. Sachs is also one of the Secretary-General’s MDG Advocates, and a Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Development. Professor Sachs is widely considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on sustainable economic development and the fight against poverty. His work on ending poverty, promoting economic growth, fighting hunger and disease, and promoting sustainable environmental practices, has taken him to more than 125 countries with more than 90 percent of the world’s population. For more than a quarter century he has advised dozens of heads of state and governments on economic strategy, in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He has authored three New York Times bestsellers in the past 7 years: The End of Poverty, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, and The Price of Civilization. His most recent book is To Move the World: JFK’s Quest for Peace.