Irrational Economist_ Making Decisions in a Dangerous World - Erwann Michel-Kerjan [159]
Howard Kunreuther, The Wharton School
Howard Kunreuther is the Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Decision Sciences and Public Policy at The Wharton School as well as co-director of the Risk Management and Decision Processes Center. He received his PhD in economics from MIT. He has a long-standing interest in ways that society can better manage low-probability/high-consequence events related to technological and natural hazards and has published extensively on this topic. He is a member of the OECD’s High Level Advisory Board on Financial Management of Large-Scale Catastrophes, a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Natural Disasters, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, receiving the Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award in 2001. Professor Kunreuther has written and co-edited 200 papers and over 30 books, including At War with the Weather, with Erwann Michel-Kerjan (MIT Press, 2009), Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risks, with Patricia Grossi (Klewer Academic Publishers, 2005), and Wharton on Making Decisions (with Stephen Hoch) ( John Wiley and Sons, 2001), and is a recipient of the Elizur Wright Award for the publication that makes the most significant contribution to the literature of insurance.
Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, IIASA
Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer is leader of the Risk and Vulnerability Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. She is an economist by training, and has received a BS and a PhD at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Maryland, respectively. Her current interests are global change and the risk of catastrophic events, and she is investigating options for improving the financial management of catastrophic risks in transition and developing countries. She and her colleagues have carried out extensive research on this topic and are developing options for the donor communities, as well as the climate adaptation community, to support insurance and other forms of proactive disaster assistance. She is an associate editor of the Journal for Risk Research and on the editorial board of Risk Analysis and Risk Abstracts. Her other affiliations include the faculty of Beijing Normal University and the Science Committee of the Chinese Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management.
Robert Meyer, The Wharton School
Robert Meyer is the Gayfryd Steinberg Professor of Marketing and co-director of Wharton’s Risk Management and Decision Processes Center. He received his PhD in transportation geography from the University of Iowa in 1980. His research focuses on consumer decision analysis, sales response modeling, and decision making under uncertainty. Using laboratory simulations Professor Meyer and his colleagues have been able to show that the much-publicized failures of preparation that contributed to the losses from such recent events as the Asian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina are consistent with a number of hard-wired biases in the ways that people respond to risk. Professor Meyer’s work has appeared in a wide variety of professional journals and books, including the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, and Management Science. He has served as the editor of Marketing Letters and as an associate editor of Marketing Science and the Journal of Consumer Research.
Erwann Michel-Kerjan, The Wharton School
Erwann Michel-Kerjan teaches value creation in The Wharton School’s MBA program. He is the managing director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, a center with over twenty-five years of experience