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The following letter was sent to President Obama by Rep. Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and 26 other members of Congress.

Dear Mr. President,

When the member nations of the World Bank meet this spring to select the organization’s next president, we strongly encourage you to nominate Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as the United States’ candidate. We believe that Professor Sachs has the experience, expertise and bold vision for the future needed to lead the World Bank at this critical moment in history.

Professor Sachs is widely considered to be the world’s leading expert on economic development and the fight against poverty. For over 25 years, he has advised dozens of governments throughout the developing world on economic development, environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation, debt cancellation, and globalizati! on. He has twice been named among Time Magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders. He was described by the New York Times as “probably the most important economist in the world,” and by Time Magazine as “the world’s best known economist.” A recent survey by The Economist Magazine ranked Professor Sachs as among the world’s three most influential living economists of the past decade.

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