RAND Expert Biography
Robert J. Lempert
Senior Physical Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Expertise
Climate change, environment, long-term policy analysis, risk and uncertainty management, strategy under uncertainty
Recent Work
Developing and applying new tools for managing deep uncertainty and surprise; climate change and environment; responses to terrorism; managing innovation
Education
Ph.D. in applied physics, S.M. in applied physics and science policy, Harvard University; B.A.S. in physics and political science, Stanford University
Publications of Interest
"A General, Analytic Method for Generating Robust Strategies and Narrative Scenarios," Robert J. Lempert et al., Management Science, Vol. 52, No. 4, Apr 2006
"High-Performance Government in an Uncertain World," Robert Lempert and Steven W. Popper, in Robert Klitgaard and Paul C. Light, eds., High-Performance Government: Structure, Leadership, Incentives, RAND Corporation, 2005
"Shaping the Future," Steven W. Popper et al., Scientific American, Vol. 292, No. 4, Apr 2005
Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis, Robert J. Lempert et al., RAND Corporation, 2003
"Finding Transatlantic Common Ground on Climate Change?" The International Spectator, Vol. 36, No. 2, Apr/June 2002
Recent RAND Publications are listed here.
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: Beyond the Beltway; Fox; New York Times; NPR
Commentary: American Interest; United Press International
To arrange an interview:
Contact the RAND Office of Media Relations, (703) 413-1100, x5117 or (310) 451-6913, or send an email to media@rand.org.
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