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 and 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), The
Future of Risk Management (with R Meyer and E. Michel-Kerjan, University of
Pennsylvania 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
