Steven W. Popper is an adjunct senior economist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. He also serves as distinguished professor of decision sciences in the School of Government and Public Transformation of Tecnológico de Monterrey. As associate director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute (1996–2001), Popper provided analytic support to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and other Executive Branch agencies. He currently works on decisionmaking under deep uncertainty, science and technology policy, strategic decisionmaking foresight and future studies, and security planning.
Popper coauthored the flagship study, Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis (2003), which provides a methodological framework for decisionmaking under deep uncertainty that has been applied to an expanding set of policy issues as Robust Decision Making (RDM). He is co-editor of the handbook Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty: From Theory to Practice (2019).
He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, OECD, and several national governments. He is past chair of the Industrial Science and Technology section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a founding officer and current finance chair of the international Society for Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty. Popper received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.S summa cum laude in biochemistry from the University of Minnesota.
Ph.D. in economics, University of California, Berkeley; B.S. in biochemistry, University of Minnesota
Hungarian; Russian; German
