John McArthur is Policy Director at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and co-director of the Millennium Villages Project, a partnership between the Earth Institute, Millennium Promise, and the UN Development Program to promote community-level achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) throughout rural Africa. He co-chairs, with Jeffrey Sachs, the Commission on Education for International Development Professionals, an initiative sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation to identify the cross-disciplinary training requirements for the next generation of sustainable development practitioners. Previously Mr. McArthur served as Deputy Director and Manager of the UN Millennium Project. In this capacity he coordinated a global network of nearly 300 experts who served on ten thematic Task Forces and he was lead editor of the Project’s final report to the Secretary-General, Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Prior to that Mr. McArthur was a Research Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, where he coauthored the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report with Michael Porter and Jeffrey Sachs. He has an MPhil in Economics from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar; a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government; and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of British Columbia.

 

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