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Jim Garrison will have a conversation with Jeffery Sachs on the impact of the Trump presidency on Ukraine, which has dramatically impacted the course of the war, upended 80 years of post Second World War consensus and created political, media and geo-strategic turmoil. The US has cut off military and intelligence assistance to Ukraine, President Selenskyj and European leaders are being sidelined, Russia is escalating its diplomatic and military offensives, and uncertainty and anxiety are in the air. What on earth is going on?
Panel: Dr. Jeffery Sachs
Sachs is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including the escape from extreme poverty, the global battle against human-induced climate change, international debt and financial crises, national economic reforms, and the control of pandemic and epidemic diseases.
Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor, the university’s highest academic rank. Sachs was Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University, and SDG Advocate for UN Secretary General António Guterres. From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18).
Convener:
Dr. Jim Garrison
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Jim Garrison will have a conversation with Jeffery Sachs on the impact of the Trump presidency on Ukraine, which has dramatically impacted the course of the war, upended 80 years of post Second World War consensus and created political, media and geo-strategic turmoil. The US has cut off military and intelligence assistance to Ukraine, President Selenskyj and European leaders are being sidelined, Russia is escalating its diplomatic and military offensives, and uncertainty and anxiety are in the air. What on earth is going on?
Panel: Dr. Jeffery Sachs
Sachs is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including the escape from extreme poverty, the global battle against human-induced climate change, international debt and financial crises, national economic reforms, and the control of pandemic and epidemic diseases.
Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor, the university’s highest academic rank. Sachs was Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University, and SDG Advocate for UN Secretary General António Guterres. From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18).
Convener:
Dr. Jim Garrison
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