Ulaanbaatar
President of Mongolia meets Professor Jeffrey Sachs
Politics
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. The President of Mongolia Ukhnaa
Khurelsukh met on September 20 with Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of the
Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
President U.Khurelsukh and Professor J. Sachs exchanged
views on the impacts of the pandemic over the past two years, especially on the
economies of developing countries, ways to overcome them, and intensification
of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development both at
the national and international levels.
During the meeting, President U. Khurelsukh invited
Professor J. Sachs to visit Mongolia to deliver lectures to scholars, experts
and policy makers on economic and sustainable development solutions, the
special needs of landlocked developing countries and regional and international
cooperation. Professor Sachs expressed that he accepts the invitation with
gratitude.
Professor Sachs noted that he views Mongolia as a country
with two large neighbors, a vast territory, abundant natural resources and
sources of solar and wind energy, and a great potential for economic
development, and stressed that promoting information technology development and
their use will become the main driving force for the future development.
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs is a global leader in
development economics and sustainable development, who was ranked among the
three most influential living economists by the Economist and twice named among
Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders. He works closely with the
United Nations and served as Special Adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
(2001-2007), Ban Ki-moon (2008-2016) and Antonio Guterres (2017-2018) from 2001
to 2018.
Currently Professor Sachs serves as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Sustainable Development Goals, and he also leads many research and development projects and programs as the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development.
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
