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Jeffrey Sachs is Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Director of the Center for International Development. Sachs' research interests include the links of health and development, economic geography, globalization, emerging markets, global competitiveness, transitions to market economies, international financial markets and macroeconomic policy coordination, and macroeconomic policies in developing and developed countries. He serves as economic adviser to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Africa. His publications include Macroeconomics in the Global Economy (co-authored with Felipe Larrain) and Poland's Jump to the Market Economy. Sachs is a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, the Fellows of the World Econometrics Society, World Economic Forum's Global Leaders for Tomorrow, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Brookings Panel of Economists, and he is Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
