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of Decision Sciences at the Fuqua School of Business of Duke University. He earned his PhD in Operations Research from MIT. Previously, Professor Keeney was a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria as well as the founder of the decision and risk analysis group of a large geotechnical and environmental consulting firm. Professor Keeney is the author of many books and articles, including Decisions with Multiple Objectives, co-authored with Howard Raiffa (reprinted by Cambridge University Press, 1993), which won the ORSA Lanchester Prize, and Value-Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decision Making (Harvard University Press, 1992), which received the Decision Analysis Society Best Publication Award. His book Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions, co-authored with John S. Hammond and Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School Press, 1999), also received the Decision Analysis Society Best Publication Award. It has been translated into thirteen languages. Professor Keeney was awarded the Ramsey Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Decision Analysis by the Decision Analysis Society and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

Paul R. Kleindorfer, INSEAD

Paul Kleindorfer is the Paul Dubrule Professor of Sustainable Development and Distinguished Research Professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. He is also Anheuser-Busch Professor of Management Science (Emeritus) at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy and studied on a Fulbright Fellowship in Mathematics at the University of Tübingen, Germany, followed by doctoral studies in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Kleindorfer has held university appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Wharton School, and several other universities and international research institutes. Until 2005, he was the co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center. He is currently the Director of the Sustainability Programme in the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, where his research is concerned with climate change and the transition to the low-carbon economy. His most recent book is The Network Challenge (Wharton Publishing, 2009), co-authored with Jerry Wind.

Carolyn Kousky, Resources for the Future

Carolyn Kousky is a Fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C. Her research focuses on natural resource management, land use, decision making under uncertainty, and individual and societal responses to natural disaster risk. Her work assesses the ways in which decisions are made regarding low-probability events, at both the individual and societal levels, and how such decision making can be improved. In particular, she has researched the management of flood risk in the United States, analyzing insurance decisions, floodplain management, and what individuals learn from the occurrence of extreme events. In 2006-2007, she was a visiting scholar at the Wharton Risk Center, working on flood insurance in the United States. She received a BS in earth systems from Stanford University and a PhD in public policy from Harvard University.

David H. Krantz, Columbia University

David Krantz graduated from Yale University (mathematics) and received his PhD (psychology) from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1985 and is currently professor of psychology and statistics. He is founding director of Columbia’s Center for the Decision Sciences and the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) and has been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. He has also been active in a number of roles in the Earth Institute at Columbia over the past ten years. Professor Krantz’s research focuses on problem solving, especially decision making, multiple goals, risky and inter-temporal choice, and the use of statistical concepts