UN advisor to speak at DIFC event

UN economist Jeffrey Sachs will lecture at DIFCweek on November 20.

UN economic advisor Jeffrey Sachs is set to address international financial leaders in Dubai this November, it was announced today.

Professor Sachs - an influential economist who was special advisor to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan - will deliver a lecture during DIFCweek, tackling diversity of wealth, finding an end to poverty, and the UN Millennium Development Goals.

The Gate Lecture on November 20 aims to explain why wealth across the globe has diverged so much and is set to offer an integrated set of solutions to the problems that hold societies back.

"Our planet is crowded to an unprecedented degree. It is bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms," Sachs said in a statement.

He added that our greatest challenge is "learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment."

Under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Sachs spearheaded the creation of the UN's Millennium Development Goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015.

He has also advised heads of state around the world on development issues and global competitiveness, and been an advisor to the IMF, the World Bank, the OECD, and the World Health Organisation.

DIFCweek, set to focus on financial opportunities in current and emerging financial markets, is the first event of its kind in the Middle East and will run from November 17-23.

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