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Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie Mellon University

Baruch Fischhoff is Howard Heinz University Professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where he heads the Decision Sciences Major. He holds a BS in mathematics and psychology from Wayne State University and an MA and PhD in psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Fischhoff’s research areas include risk communication, analysis and management, adolescent decision making, informed consent, security, and environmental protection. He has co-authored or edited four books: Acceptable Risk (Cambridge University Press, 1981), A Two-State Solution in the Middle East: Prospects and Possibilities (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1993), Preference Elicitation (Klewer, 1999), and Risk Communication: The Mental Models Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2001). He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and of the Society for Risk Analysis. He chairs the Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication Advisory Committee and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Homeland Security Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Advisory Board, the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee, and the Department of State Global Expertise Program, and was a founding member of the Commission on the Rights of Women in Eugene, Oregon.

Kenneth A. Froot, Harvard University

Kenneth Froot is André R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business Administration. He received his BA from Stanford University and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. His research on a wide range of topics in finance, risk management, and international markets has been published in many journals and books. He is co-chair of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Insurance Group as well as a member of the American Finance Association, the American Economics Association, and the Behavioral Finance Working Group, and has served as a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Froot has been a consultant to many companies, countries, and official institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve on international financial, risk management, and investment management issues. He has also acted as a financial advisor to the prime minister of the Republic of Slovenia and to the finance minister of Poland, and has served on the staff of the Economic Advisory Board of the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Christian Gollier, Toulouse School of Economics

Christian Gollier is currently deputy director at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), research director at the Institut d’Economie Industrielle (IDEI), and director of the Laboratory of Environment and Resources Economics, Toulouse, France. He holds a PhD in economics and an MA in applied mathematics from the Catholic University of Louvain. His current research ranges from decision theory under uncertainty to environmental economics, with a special focus on long-term effects. He has been a consultant for various industries and public institutions, on issues such as social security reforms, the economics of climate change, and corporate social responsibility. He has written and edited seven books on risk, including The Economics of Risk and Time (MIT Press, 2001), and was a lead author of the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. Among many prizes and honors, Professor Gollier has received several awards, including that of Junior Member of the “Institut Universitaire de France,” the Paul A. Samuelson award, and, in 2005, the “GSU-ARIA” award for the best paper presented at the first World Risk and