Dr. Thomas Schelling is Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus at the University of Maryland. For twenty years he was the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Dr. Schelling was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Robert Aumann in 2005 for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis."
He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 1991, he was President of the American Economic Association, of which he is a Distinguished Fellow. He was the recipient of the Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy and the National Academy of Sciences award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War.
He served in the Economic Cooperation Administration in Europe, and has held positions in the White House and Executive Office of the President, Yale University, the RAND Corporation and the Department of Economics and Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.
He has published on military strategy and arms control, energy and environmental policy, climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, organized crime, foreign aid and international trade, conflict and bargaining theory, racial segregation and integration, the military draft, health policy, tobacco and drugs policy, and ethical issues in public policy and in business.
Dr. Schelling was a member of the Expert Panel for Copenhagen Consensus 2004 and Copenhagen Consensus 2008.
The Copenhagen Consensus Center has commissioned research papers from specialist climate economists, outlining the costs and benefits of each way to respond to global warming.
To help promote discussion about the best response to global warming, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has assembled an Expert Panel of stellar economists to consider the research presented here.
The five world-class economists – including three recipients of the Nobel Prize – are specialists in analyzing costs and benefits. They will meet in September to consider the research presented here, engage with the authors, and will then form conclusions about which solutions to climate change are the most promising.
