Back To SpeakersJeffrey Sachs
Director, Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development. He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including debt crises, hyperinflations, the transition from central planning to market economies, the control of AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, the escape from extreme poverty, and the battle against human-induced climate change. He is Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, and an SDG Advocate for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General, for Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and Antonio Guterres (2017-18).
Sessions
10/02/2019
10.00 - 10.45
AD Fund Hall
The Global Happiness Policy Report is produced on an annual basis by the Global Happiness Council . This year’s report, its second edition, provides evidence and policy recommendations on best practices from around the world to promote happiness and well-being. The report contains papers by expert working groups on happiness for good governance, in areas that include, health, society, education, employment, cities, and measurements. It is designed to support policy makers searching for concrete examples and actionable policies. In this session, the authors of the report and government representatives will present the key recommendations and discuss options for government response.
11/02/2019
06.00 - 07.30
DEWA HALL