2008 CARE National Conference: Speaker Biographies TAKE PART. TAKE A STAND. TAKE ACTION. David Gregory
Washington, D.C.
June 18-19, 2008
Chief White House Correspondent, NBC News
As Chief White House Correspondent, David Gregory has begun his sixth year leading the network's coverage of the Bush presidency, reporting regularly on "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," "Today," for NBC News' 24-hour cable network MSNBC and on MSNBC.com. He is the host of "Race for the White House," which airs weekdays at 6:00 p.m. EST. In addition, Gregory often appears on "Hardball with Chris Matthews."
In the fall of 2005, Gregory began substituting regularly for Matt Lauer on "Today." He has served as substitute moderator on "Meet the Press," and has been a substitute anchor for the weekend editions of "Nightly News" and "Today." As a political commentator, Gregory is a frequent contributor on NBC's "Meet the Press" and the syndicated "Chris Matthews Show."
In 2005, Gregory shared an Emmy with his colleagues for the network's coverage of President Ronald Reagan's death and funeral the previous summer. He reported on Reagan's death from Paris, where President Bush learned of the news.
Since joining NBC News in 1995, Gregory has covered nearly every major story for the network: from the O.J. Simpson trials, to the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, to the impeachment of President Clinton, and the death of Pope John Paul II in Rome.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty.
He is widely considered to be the leading international economic advisor of his generation. For more than 20 years, Professor Sachs has been in the forefront of the challenges of economic development, poverty alleviation, and enlightened globalization, promoting policies to help all parts of the world to benefit from expanding economic opportunities and wellbeing. He is one of the leading voices for combining economic development with environmental sustainability, and as Director of the Earth Institute leads large-scale efforts to promote the mitigation of human-induced climate change.
In 2004 and 2005, he was named among the 100 most influential leaders in the world by Time magazine, and was awarded the Padma Bhushan, a high civilian honor bestowed by the Indian Government, in 2007. Sachs lectures constantly around the world and was the 2007 BBC Reith Lecturer. He is author of hundreds of scholarly articles and many books, including Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (Penguin 2008) and The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty (Penguin, 2005). Sachs is a member of the Institute of Medicine and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has received many honorary degrees, most recently from Cracow University of Economics, Ursinus College, Whitman College, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Ohio Wesleyan University, Trinity College Dublin, the College of the Atlantic, and Southern Methodist University. Prior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent more than 20 years at Harvard University, most recently as Director of the Center for International Development.
A native of Detroit, Michigan, Sachs received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard.
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