Lisa Sachs is the director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, where she oversees the center’s three areas of focus: investments in extractive industries, investments in land and agriculture and investment in law and policy. She is a member of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s thematic group on the Good Governance of Extractive and Land Resources and is vice-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Mining & Metals.