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Howard C. Kunreuther is the Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Decision Sciences and Public Policy at the Wharton School and co-director of the Risk Management and Decision Processes Center.
He has a long-standing interest in ways that society can better manage low-probability, high-consequence events related to technological and natural hazards and has published extensively on the topic, including On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina (with Ronald J. Daniels and Donald F. Kettl, 2006); Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risks (with Patricia Grossi, 2005); and Paying the Price: The State of Natural Disaster Insurance in the United States (with John Roth, Sr., 1998).
He is the recipient of the Elizur Wright Award for the publication that makes the most significant contribution to the literature of insurance.
Kunreuther is co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on "Leadership and Innovation for Reducing Risks from Natural Disasters." He is a founding member of the High Level Advisory Board on Financial Management of Large-Scale Catastrophes of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program's Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction; and a Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, receiving the Society's Distinguished Achievement Award in 2001.
He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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