Howard Kunreuther
Title: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic to Address Climate Change
Biography
Howard Kunreuther is the James G. Dinan
Professor Emeritus of Decision Sciences and Public Policy, and Co-Director of
the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania. Howard
has a long-standing interest in ways that society can better manage
low-probability, high-consequence events related to technological and natural
hazards. He is a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, a distinguished fellow of the
Society for Risk Analysis, and recipient of the Shin
Research Excellence Award from the Geneva Association and International
Insurance Society in recognition of his outstanding work on the role of
public-private partnerships in mitigating and managing risks. Recent books include The Ostrich Paradox:
Why We Underprepare for Disasters (with
R. Meyer, Wharton Digital Press) and Mastering Catastrophic Risk: How
Companies Are Coping with Disruption (with
M. Useem, Oxford University Press).
Research Interest
Risk communication; Decision making under
uncertainty
