Jeffrey Sachs

Progress of Economic Reform in Eastern Europe

Clemens Lecture Series 5, 1991

Jeffrey Sachs is a Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University. He has authored scores of articles in scholarly journals and has published books on international stagflation and on the Third World debt crisis. Earlier in 1991, Sachs delivered the prestigious Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures at the London School of Economics and the John Hicks Lectures at Oxford University.

He has been economic adviser to several governments from Latin America to Eastern Europe. He is currently the principal western economic adviser to the governments of Poland and Russia. He has been a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the World Band, the OECD and the United Nations Development Program.

Sachs commutes regularly to Eastern Europe and is arguably the best informed American economist on recent economic developments in Poland, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.