Creating a happier world – with Jeffrey Sachs

Join us for an inspiring evening with Jeffrey Sachs as he explores the causes of happiness and unhappiness in modern Western culture and shares his vision for a better culture and a happier world.

What factors really matter for wellbeing? Why has happiness fallen in some countries even as the economy has grown? What is happening with social trust and inequality in the West? And how can we put things right?

“Original, independent, rigorous, enlightened and enlightening… Sachs goes so far to restore one’s wavering faith in humanity” ~ Spectator

Jeffrey Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and is one of the world’s leading experts on economic development.

Sachs is special adviser to the UN Secretary General on the Sustainable Development Goals and co-founder of the non-profit organisation Millennium Promise Alliance. He is director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and Professor of Health policy and Management at Columbia’s School of Public Health.

He is co-editor of the World Happiness Report and author of various best-selling books including The Price of Civilization and The End of Poverty.

“Brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient… Outstanding”
~ The Economist

Doors will open at 18:30 and the event will start at 19:00