Bono and economist Jeffrey Sachs at the Glucksman Ireland House Daniel Patrick Moynihan lecture. By Irish America Staff
Glucksman Ireland House New York University (NYU), presented its inaugural Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lecture on October 5.
Musician and political activist U2’s Bono introduced Columbia University’s Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the author of the bestselling book The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.
Bono, whose intensive lobbying of politicians all over the world recently helped force a promise from wealthy nations to cancel $100 billion worth of poor countries’ debt, acknowledged Sachs as his mentor. “It’s a long time since I’ve been a warm-up act, but on this occasion I am happy I am,” he told the audience. He said Sachs, whose class he attended at Harvard, “sees the faces through the spreadsheets.