and many, many other places, and became rather deeply involved in the politics and the geopolitics of Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Now, from there, I was invited to come to Africa, which I had not worked in. I began to visit China and India regularly. I was asked by both governments to give advice in both China and in India. And in Africa, I began a very intensive period for me of 20 years of working on the challenges facing the poorest countries in the world. Well, at that point, the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, said come be my advisor. And I said, great. And I packed up our bags. The family moved from Harvard, where I was professor, to Columbia University. I came in 2002. I came in a dual capacity as special advisor to the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, and as head of a rather remarkable innovation of Columbia University called the Earth Institute, which was focused not only on the economics issues that I had spent my career to that point (8/45)
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