Biography:
Bjørn Lomborg, born January 6 1965.
M.A. in political science (Cand.scient.pol.) 1991.
Ph.D. at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. 1994.
Assistant professor at the Department of Political
Science, University of Aarhus, 1994-1996.
Associate professor same place, 1997-2005.
Director of Denmark's national Environmental Assessment Institute February 2002-July 2004.
Organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus May 2004, prioritizing the best opportunities to the world's big challenges.
Adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School 2005-.
Director for the Copenhagen Consensus Center 2006-.
Bjørn Lomborg was named one of the 100 globally most influential people by Time magazine in April 2004. Foreign Policy and Prospect Magazine had him listed as the world’s 14th most influential intellectual in October 2005.
He is adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and author of the best-selling “The Skeptical Environmentalist”, where he challenges our understanding of the environment, and points out how we need to focus our attention on the most important problems first. His first book has been published in the major languages around the world and he is a frequent participant in the current debate, with commentaries in such places as New York Times, Wall St. Journal, Globe & Mail, The Guardian, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Times, The Australian, the Economist. He has also appeared on TV, such places as Politically Incorrect, ABC 60 minutes, CNN, BBC, CNBC, and PBS.
In May 2004 he organized the "Copenhagen Consensus" which brought together some of the world's top economists. Here they prioritized the best opportunities to the world's big challenges, essentially answering the question: If we want to do good, where should we start? In June 2006 he assembled a number of top UN ambassadors, including representatives from China, India and the UN, representing about half the world’s population. They also answered the question, and came out with a similar ranking, the first of its kind for the UN. The conferences and their results have resulted in two books: "Global Crises, Global Solutions" and "How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place"
It all started in 1998, when Bjørn Lomborg is an associate professor at of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus. He published four lengthy articles about the state of our environment in the leading Danish newspaper, which resulted in a firestorm debate spanning over 400 articles in major metropolitan newspapers. The articles lead to the publication of The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001, which has now been published in Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Czech, Korean and Japanese.
In November 2001, Lomborg was selected Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.
From February 2002 to July 2004 Lomborg was director of Denmark's national Environmental Assessment Institute.
In June 2002, Lomborg was named one of the "50 stars of Europe" (as one of the 9 "agenda setters" in Europe) in Business Week (June 17).
In April 2004, Lomborg was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time Magazine.
In June 2005 named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
In October 2005 listed as the world’s 14th most influential intellectual by Foreign Policy and Prospect Magazine.
Professional areas of interests:
Simulation of strategies in collective action dilemmas; simulation of party behavior in proportional voting systems; use of surveys in public administration; use of statistics in the environmental arena.
A political scientist from a socialist country. That's gonna work out okay!