Spirit In Action

Joseph Hunt has spent a lifetime seeking to empower a world where individuals reach their potential in health, learning, & well-being, and which is compassionate & sustainable. From his service in Nigeria during the war in Biafra, to his decades as a development economist throughout Asia, to his current position as a Senior Research Scientist at Harvard's Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Joseph seeks a better world for all. Inspirational work in the field can be found at the Poverty Action Lab at MIT, in the United Nations Development Goals - Sustainable Development, through the La Via Campesina/International Peasants Movement, and in the work of Economics Nobel Peace Prize recipients, MIT economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and Angus Deaton.