"Jeffery Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and a Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on the UN Millennium Development Goals, a poverty reduction initiative. He has advised several governments on economic reforms and was voted by Time magazine recently as one of the 100 most influential world leaders. In July, he published an article titled ?Myanmar: Sanctions Won?t Work”. He spoke with Irrawaddy Editor Aung Zaw and Deputy Editor Shawn L. Nance about alternative methods to promote political reform in Burma..."