Jeffrey Sachs.
Former director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, with the mission to address complex issues facing the planet, its inhabitants, while focusing on sustainable development.
Serves as special advisor to current Director Gen of the UN, Antonio Guterres.
Special advisor specifically on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 17 goals decided in 2015 at the UN Summit.
Before that he was special advisor to Ban Ki-Moon, the previous DG related to the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org 
Also the mastermind behind the UN's Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development.

https://www.broadbandcommission.org/Pages/default.aspx
Co-founder of the Millenium Promise Alliance, dedicated to the MDGs & an overseer of the Millenium Villages Project, which began in Kenya and Ethiopia.
The goal is to sustain life on $120 per capita per year. In conjunction with Earth Inst./Columbia.
https://www.un.org/esa/coordination/Alliance/Earth%20Institute%20-%20The%20Millennium%20Villages%20Project.htm
He was the director of the United Nations Millenium Project, and developed the original MDGs and was special advisor to then-DirGen Kofi Annan.

He is the director of the UNs Sustainable Development Solutions Network and co-editor of the World Happiness Report/resolution 65/309.
Resolution 65/309 has been scrubbed from the internet but I found it. It's attached to this tweet.
It was followed by this report by the UN:

Defining a New Economic Paradigm:
The Report of the High-Level Meeting on Wellbeing and Happiness
He is one of the most influential people in the world connected to the most influential university in the world. He is the advisor and the brains behind everything. It's not Gates. He just has a massive contract with Microsoft and has the Gates Foundation for the $$.
Here's a 2012 CSPAN video with Sachs, Paul Krugman, and George Soros discussing the financial crisis, recession, and China's economy.

I'll upload more when I have more.

Let me know what you find.

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