27 - LSE Lecture - 12 November 2009

Detlof von Winterfeldt

Research for a World in Transition

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Lecture Summary

Professor von Winterfeldt, Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), provides an overview of the Institute’s accomplishments and new strategy, focusing on policy relevant research in three global problem areas: food and water; energy and climate change; and poverty and equity.

Speaker Biography

Detlof von Winterfeldt is the Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. He is on leave from the University of Southern California (USC), where he is a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and a Professor of Public Policy and Management. Concurrently with his term at IIASA, he is visiting the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Centennial Professor in the Operational Research Group of the School of Management.

In 2004, he co-founded the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), the first university-based center of excellence funded by the US Department of Homeland Security, serving as CREATE’s director until 2008. For the past thirty years, he has been active in teaching, research, university administration, and consulting. He has taught courses in statistics, decision analysis, risk analysis, systems analysis, research design, and behavioral decision research. His research interests are in the foundation and practice of decision and risk analysis as applied to the areas of technology development, environmental risks, natural hazards and terrorism .

He is the co-author of two books, two edited volumes, and author or co-author of over 100 journal articles and book chapters on these topics. As a consultant he has applied decision and risk analysis to many management problems of government and private industry

He has served on several committees and panels of the National Science Foundation and the National Academies, including a recent appointment to the National Academies’ Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and of the Society for Risk Analysis.

In 2000, he received the Ramsey Medal for distinguished contributions to decision analysis from the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS.

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