Dr. Robert Lempert
Senior Physical Scientist
RAND Corporation

Robert J. Lempert, Senior Physical Scientist at RAND and Professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, is an expert in science and technology policy, with a special focus on climate change, energy, and the environment. He was a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007 along with Vice President Al Gore.

An internationally-known scholar in the field of decisionmaking under conditions of deep uncertainty, Dr. Lempert is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Science's Climate Research Committee, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Lempert is principal investigator of a National Science Foundation funded center on climate change decision making, which studies how policy-makers can best use uncertain climate forecasts to support important decisions. This project is helping California water agencies include climate impacts in their long-term water management plans and is assessing responses to potential abrupt climate change. He is co-leading a project comparing the effectiveness of carbon taxes and cap and trade system in reaching long-term climate goals and has recently completed a study on the Federal role in providing terrorism insurance. A Professor of Policy Analysis in the RAND Graduate School, Dr. Lempert is an author of the book Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Longer-Term Policy Analysis.

Dr. Lempert received his Ph.D. in applied physics and S.M. in applied physics and science policy from Harvard University, and his B.A.S. in physics and political science from Stanford University.

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