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According to experts, the world has never been so prosperous. We have technology, wealth, knowledge. And yet, there is a sense of fulfillment that evades us even as we acquire material rewards. EVERY THREE SECONDS combines the voices of these leading experts to show us that by helping others we help ourselves.

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Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002-2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015.

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Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong is one of the best known and most popular writers on religion today. She has authored twelve books, including her latest book, 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life, and the best-seller, A History of God. In 2008, Ms. Armstrong won the TED Prize and made a wish for the TED Community to help her create, launch, and propagate a Charter for Compassion. The Charter for Compassion was unveiled to the world in November 2009.

Lynne Twist

Lynne Twist is an activist who has dedicated her life to global initiatives that serve the best instincts in all of us. She has spent more than three decades working in leadership positions with organizations to address: ending world hunger, improving health, economic, and political conditions for women and children and creating a sustainable future for all life. Her book, THE SOUL OF MONEY, is a wise and inspiring exploration of the connection between money and leading a fulfilling life.

Muhammed Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker who developed the concept of micro-credit/micro-finance and is also the founder of Grameen Bank. In 2006, Yunus and the bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.” They are responsible for bringing millions out of poverty.

Josette Sheeran

Josette Sheeran is the eleventh Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) where she is responsible for managing the world’s largest humanitarian organization which includes a worldwide organization of nearly 11,000 people. WFP provides emergency food aid to the world’s hungry as well as addresses the causes of chronic hunger.

Peter Singer

Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher who has written many books, including PRACTICAL ETHICS; THE EXPANDING CIRCLE; HOW ARE WE TO LIVE?, THE WAY WE EAT (WITH JIM MASON) AND MOST RECENTLY, THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE. In his most recent book, he suggests a new public standard for a minimum that we should expect people to give to people living in extreme poverty.

Shannon Daley-Harris

Shannon Daley-Harris is the co-author of the book, OUR DAY TO END POVERTY, which invites its reader to look at a 24-hour period in their lives and to begin thinking about poverty in new and creative ways. She has served as the Director of Religious Affairs for the Children’s Defense Fund and is married to Sam Daley-Harris, the founder of RESULTS.ORG.

Sam Daley-Harris

Sam Daley-Harris is the founder of RESULTS.ORG, an international citizens’ lobby dedicated to creating the political will to end hunger and poverty. He is also the founder and President of RESULTS Educational Fund and organized the Microcredit Summit held in Washington DC in 1997 which launched a plan to reach 100 million of the world’s poorest families with credit for self-employement and other financial aid business services.