{"id":227464,"date":"2023-01-30T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=227464"},"modified":"2023-01-16T04:33:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T04:33:23","slug":"jeffrey-sachs-highlights-from-athens-democracy-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/01\/jeffrey-sachs-highlights-from-athens-democracy-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Sachs Highlights from Athens Democracy Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"info-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><strong><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string bold\" dir=\"auto\">19 Oct 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>Some highlights from Jeffrey Sachs&#8217;s comments at the 2022 Athens Democracy Forum session on &#8220;A Decade of Democracy: China and Russia.&#8221; Prof. Sachs is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. The event was recorded on 29 Sep 2022 in the Zappeion Megaron in Athens, Greece.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VP_SpW-DyQg<br \/>\n<em><strong>Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University<\/strong>, is Director of Columbia\u2019s Center for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has served as Special Adviser to three UN Secretaries-General [<\/em><em>Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (2017-18)]<\/em><em>. His books include <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/293755\/the-end-of-poverty-by-jeffrey-d-sachs\/9780143036586\/\" >The End of Poverty<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/298397\/common-wealth-by-jeffrey-d-sachs\/9781101202753\/\" >Common Wealth<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/the-age-of-sustainable-development\/9780231173155\" >The Age of Sustainable Development<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/building-the-new-american-economy\/9780231184045\" >Building the New American Economy<\/a><em>, and most recently,<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/a-new-foreign-policy\/9780231547888\" >A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism<\/a>. <em>Sachs was also an advisor to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as to the first president of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some highlights from Jeffrey Sachs&#8217;s comments at the 2022 Athens Democracy Forum session on &#8220;A Decade of Democracy: China and Russia.&#8221; Prof. Sachs is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[2983],"class_list":["post-227464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-jeffrey-sachs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}