Millennium Promise was established in New York in April of 2005 by director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special adviser to UN Secretary-General Professor Jeffrey Sachs, and internationally renowned businessman and philanthropist Raymond Chambers (Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Malaria), based on their vision of eradicating extreme poverty by 2025.

The mission of Millennium Promise is to see that the Millennium Development Goals are achieved in Africa by 2015, and this is in part facilitated by the running of the Millennium Villages Project.
The work of Millennium Promise is based upon and inspired by the belief that for the first time in history, we as a generation have the opportunity to eradicate extreme poverty.

Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. `Probably the most important economist in the world` (The New York Times).
Co-founder of Millennium Promise.

Having received his doctorate from Harvard in 1980, by 1984, at just 29 years of age, Sachs joined the Harvard Faculty of Economics as Professor. During his 20 years in this position, he was also named Director of the Harvard Center for International Development.

Accepting the post of special adviser to UN Secretary-General, he is universally sought for as economic adviser to governments in developing countries, world banks, and countless international organizations. At the request of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in order to help in working for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, Sachs accepted the post of Director of the Millennium Promise.