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in developing strategies and policies for dealing with catastrophic risks. He is also research associate at the École Polytechnique in France, where he completed his doctoral studies in economics and mathematics in 2002; he has also studied at McGill and Harvard Universities. He has published extensively on how to better manage extreme events, ranging from terrorism and nuclear proliferation to floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and pandemics. Specifically, he works at developing new solutions to provide the necessary financial protection against such large-scale risks and advises governments, companies, and organizations in several countries to develop concrete responses. His books include Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and At War with the Weather, with Howard Kunreuther (MIT Press, 2009). He currently serves as chairman of the OECD’s Secretary General High Level Advisory Board on Financial Management of Large-Scale Catastrophes. In 2007, Professor Michel-Kerjan was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (in Davos, Switzerland), a five-year nomination bestowed to recognize and acknowledge the most extraordinary leaders of the world under the age of 40.

David A. Moss, Harvard University

David Moss is the John G. McLean Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches classes in business, government, and the international economy. He earned a BA in history and government from Cornell University and an MA in economics and a PhD in history from Yale University. Professor Moss is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and case studies, mainly in the fields of institutional and policy history, political economy, and comparative social policy. He has also written three books, including Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy (Harvard University Press, 1996), which traces the intellectual and institutional origins of the American welfare state, and When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager (Harvard University Press, 2002), which explores the government’s pivotal role as a risk manager in policies ranging from limited liability and bankruptcy law to social insurance and federal disaster relief. Professor Moss is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Social Insurance. Among the recent honors he has received are the Robert F. Greenhill Award, the Editors’ Prize from the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, the Student Association Faculty Award for outstanding teaching at the Harvard Business School, and the American Risk and Insurance Association’s Kulp-Wright Book Award.

Robert E. O’Connor, National Science Foundation

Robert O’Connor has been directing the Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation since 2001. He earned his undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University and his doctorate in political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At NSF he also manages the Decision, Risk and Uncertainty area of emphasis of the Human and Social Dynamics initiative. In addition, he serves on the management teams for the Decision Making Under Uncertainty for Climate Change (DMUU) centers and the Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program. Prior to coming to NSF, he was a professor of political science at the Pennsylvania State University. The U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Science Foundation funded his research into public perceptions of cumulative, uncertain long-term risks, of technologies perceived as risky, and of agency risk communications. Professor O’Connor represents the National Science Foundation on two interagency groups: the U.S. Climate Change Science Program’s Interagency Working Group on Human Contributions and Responses and the Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction of the National Science and Technology Council of the Executive Office of the President.

Ayse Öncüler, ESSEC

Ayse Öncüler is associate