Category: uncertainty across disciplines

Itzhak Gilboa

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Economics and Decision Sciences

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Itzhak Gilboa is a Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC, Paris, and Professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University. He works in decision theory and other fields in economic theory such as game theory and social choice.  His main interest is in decision under uncertainty, focusing on the definition of probability, notions of rationality, non-Bayesian decision models, and related issues. He holds the AXA-HEC Chair for Decision Science.

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Craig Fox

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Management and Psychology

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Craig Fox is the Harold Williams Chair and Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, professor of psychology at the UCLA College of Letters and Sciences and professor of medicine in the UCLA Geffen School. His research focuses on decision behavior, especially under conditions of risk and uncertainty. He co-founded the Behavioral Science & Policy Association.

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Katharine Mach

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Earth Systems Science

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Katharine Mach is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and a faculty scholar at the UM Abess Center, focused on environmental science and policy. Her research assesses climate change risks and response options to address increased flooding, extreme heat, wildfire, and other hazards. From 2010 until 2015, she co-directed the scientific activities of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which culminated in the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report and have supported diverse climate policies and actions, including the Paris Agreement.

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Robert Lempert

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Decision support, Policy analysis

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Robert Lempert is a principal researcher at the RAND Corporation and Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition. His research focuses on risk management and decision-making under conditions of deep uncertainty.   He is a convening lead author for Working Group II of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, and the inaugural president of the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty.

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David Stainforth

Climate Modelling

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David Stainforth is Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Centre for the Analysis of Timeseries at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on climate modelling experiments and their interpretation for science and policy decisions, as well as on the communication of climate science to the public and decision makers, in particular for adaptation planning, economic assessments of climate change, and decision making in the context of climate adaptation. He has co-founded and was chief scientist of the climateprediction.net project, the world’s largest climate modelling experiment.

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Charles Manski

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Economics

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Charles F. Manski is Board of Trustees Professor in Economics at Northwestern University since 1997. His research spans econometrics, judgment and decision, and analysis of public policy. He has served as Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty, Chair of the Board of Overseers of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and Chair of the National Research Council Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs.

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Richard Bradley

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Philosophy

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Richard Bradley is Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He works broadly in decision theory and related fields such as formal epistemology and semantics. His research interests include decision making under uncertainty and the role of hypothetical reasoning in reaching judgements about what to do, the nature of the intentional attitudes, belief and preference revision, social value and choice, as well as the nature of chance and our attitudes to it, and decision making under severe uncertainty. He is leader of the Managing Severe Uncertainty project at the LSE.

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David Budescu

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Psychology

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David Budescu is the Anne Anastasi Professor of Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology at Fordham University.  His research is in the areas of human judgment, individual and group decision making under uncertainty and with incomplete and vague information, information aggregation and “Wisdom of Crowds”, statistics for the behavioral and social sciences, and applied psychometrics.

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