Member Biographies The U.S. Committee for IIASA roster includes illustrious scientists drawn from academia, research, and government who have expertise in a variety of scientific disciplines and have received honors in their field. Chair Simon Levin is George M. Moffett Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University and the director of the Center of Biocomplexity. Dr. Levin is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His principal research interest is in understanding how macroscopic patterns and processes are maintained at the level of ecosystems and the biosphere, in terms of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that operate primarily at the level of organisms. His work integrates empirical studies and mathematical modeling, with emphasis upon how to extrapolate across scales of space, time, and organizational complexity. Dr. Levin received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park. Members Roberta Balstad is Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University and Director of the University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). Dr. Balstad has published extensively on science policy, information technology and scientific research, remote sensing applications and policy, and the role of the social sciences in understanding global environmental change. She was appointed senior fellow at Oxford University in 1991-1992 and a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1994. She was previously the Director of the Division of Social and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation, the founder and first Executive Director of the Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA), and President/CEO of CIESIN prior to its joining Columbia University. She has lectured widely, both in the United States and abroad. From 1992 to 1994, she was Vice President of the International Social Science Council and has also served as chair of the NRC Steering Committee on Space Applications and Commercialization, the NATO Advisory Panel on Advanced Scientific Workshops/Advanced Research Institutes, the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, and the Advisory Committee of the Luxembourg Income Study. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the OpenGIS Consortium and the Advisory Board of the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (South Africa). Dr. Balstad is currently Chair of the USNC/CODATA. Scott Barrett is Professor of Environmental Economics and International Political Economy and Director of the Energy, Environment, Science and Technology Program at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Barrett received his Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics. His thesis was awarded the Resources for the Future Dissertation Prize. His areas of interest include conflict resolution and negotiation; economics; energy and environment issues; air pollution, global climate change, and nuclear waste; and international political economy. Dr. Barrett is an international research fellow with the Kiel Institute of World Economics; former faculty member at the University of London; recipient of Erik Kempe Prize for work on the strategy of negotiating international environmental agreements; adviser to international organizations—including the European Commission, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, the OECD, various U.N. agencies, and the World Bank—on negotiating environmental treaties; and served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. William Chameides recently resigned his position as Regents’ Professor and Smithgall Chair in Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology to become the Chief Scientist at Environmental Defense. His research interests include atmospheric chemistry, urban and regional air quality, urbanization and global change, environmental impacts of agriculture, tropospheric ozone and chemistry, and biogeochemical cycles and biosphere-atmosphere interactions. Dr. Chameides received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and a recipient of the Macelwane Award. Robert Corell is Senior Policy Fellow with the Atmospheric Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Prior to joining the AMS in January 2000, Dr. Corell was Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation, where he had oversight of the Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences and the global change programs of the NSF. While at the NSF, he also served as the Chair of the committee of the National Science and Technology that has oversight of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. He has served as Chair and principal U.S. delegate to many international bodies with interests in, and responsibilities for, climate and global change research programs. Before joining the NSF, he was a Professor and academic administrator at the University of New Hampshire. A native of Detroit, Corell is an oceanographer and engineer by background and training, having received Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees at the Case Institute of Technology and MIT. He has held appointments at the Woods Hole Institution of Oceanography, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the University of Washington. He is a recipient of the AMS Special Award and the AGU’s Edward A. Flinn III Award. Barbara Entwisle is Director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Barbara Entwisle is a social demographer interested in population and social change. She studies the social context of demographic behavior, and increasingly she focuses on the physical as well as the social environment. Her current research is mainly organized around projects in Northeast Thailand, where she is investigating demographic responses to rapid social change, migration and social networks, and the interrelationships between population and environment. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University in 1980. Robert Frosch is a Senior Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He serves as a participant and advisor on the Global Environmental Assessment and Sustainability Systems projects, and participates in the Managing the Atom and Energy seminars. He also serves as Vice Chair of the Report Review Committee of the National Academies, and as a frequent Reviewer and Monitor of National Academies reports. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Theoretical Physics. He conducted research in ocean acoustics at Columbia and later served as Director for Nuclear Test Detection and Deputy Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the Department of Defense, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development (ASNR&D), Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Associate Director for Applied Oceanography of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), President of the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES), and Vice President of General Motors Corporation (GM) in charge of Research Laboratories. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Member of the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering, and a fellow or member of a number of professional societies. Robin Keller is Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies at the University of California at Irvine. An expert in decision analysis, risk analysis, creative problem structuring and behavioral decision theory, Dr. Keller has served as a program director for the Decision, Risk, and Management Science Program of the U.S. National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. In her research, she studies ways to creatively structure decision problems and analyzes models of perceived risk and of the fairness of the distribution of risks among groups. Professor Keller has published articles in such noteworthy journals as Management Science, Risk Analysis, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Theory and Decision and Medical Decision Making. Dr. Keller served as the Vice President-Finance of the Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) and served as Chair of its Investment Committee. She was also a founding Director-at-large of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), which was formed by the merger of TIMS and the Operations Research Society of America. In addition, she served as Associate Dean for Research of GSM in 1992-93. Dr. Keller received her Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has been on the UCI faculty since 1982, and has been a visiting professor at Duke and UCLA. Charles Kolstad is the Donald Bren Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is jointly appointed in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and the Department of Economics. At UCSB he leads the NSF-funded PhD program in Economics and Environmental Science. For the decade prior to joining UCSB in 1993, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He has been a visiting professor at MIT, Stanford, the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the New Economic School (Moscow). He received his PhD from Stanford in 1982. Prof. Kolstad has contributed broadly to environmental economics, though most of his research has been in the area of environmental regulation. He is particularly interested in the role of information in environmental decision-making and regulation. His past work in energy markets has focused on coal and electricity markets, including the effect of air pollution regulation on these markets. During 2001-2002, Prof. Kolstad was president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE). He has served on numerous other advisory boards, including the USEPA Science Advisory Board’s Clean Air Act Compliance Analysis Committee and Environmental Economics Advisory Committee. He has also served on a number of National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences committees, including the Committee to Review CAFE Standards for Automobile Fuel Efficiency and, currently, the Committee to Review the President’s Climate Change Research Program. Jerry Melillo is Co-Director and Senior Scientist at the Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. His research interests include how human activities are altering the biogeochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems and studies of carbon and nitrogen cycling in a range of ecosystems across the globe including arctic shrublands in northern Sweden, temperate forests in North America, and tropical forests and pastures in the Amazon Basin of Brazil. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1977. He is a member of the Ecological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. William Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He completed his undergraduate work at Yale University and received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1967 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been on the faculty of Yale University since 1967 and has been Full Professor of Economics since 1973. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is on the research staff of the Cowles Foundation and the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been a member and senior advisor of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, Washington, D.C. since 1972. He has served on several committees of the National Academy of Sciences including the Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems, the Panel on Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming, the Committee on National Statistics, the Committee on Data and Research on Illegal Drugs, and the Committee on the Implications for Science and Society of Abrupt Climate Change. He serves on the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Experts and is Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Bureau of Economic Analysis. He recently chaired a Panel of the National Academy of Sciences which produced a volume, Nature's Numbers, which recommended approaches to integrate environmental and other non-market activity into the national economic accounts. Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe is Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Sciences and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Dr. Rodriguez-Iturbe's research interests span a broad range of natural phenomena related to hydrology and hydroclimatology. This involves the study of spatial and temporal variability of rainfall patterns, river networks, and soil moisture fields. His research during the past five years has been centered on ecohydrology, the hydrologic dynamics responsible for ecological patterns and processes, and its linkage with geomorphology. He won the Stockholm Water Prize in 2002. Dr. Rodriguez-Iturbe is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Cynthia Rosenzweig is at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in plant, soil, and environmental studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Rosenzweig's research involves the development of interdisciplinary methodologies by which to assess the potential impacts of and adaptations to global environmental change. She has joined impact models with global climate models (GCMs) to predict future outcomes of both land-based and urban systems under altered climate conditions. Advances include the development of climate change scenarios for impact analysis, and the application of impact models at relevant spatial and temporal scales for regional and national assessments. Dr. Rosenzweig has organized and led large-scale interdisciplinary, national, and international studies of climate change impacts and adaptation. She is the Co-Leader of the Metropolitan East Coast Regional Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, sponsored by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. She leads the Climate Impacts research group at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies, whose mission is to investigate the interactions of climate (both variability and change) on systems and sectors important to human well-being. Donald Saari is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Saari received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Purdue University in 1967. His research interests include dynamical systems and their application to the physical and social sciences. He is especially interested in voting, social choice, and decision theory; evolutionary game theory and applications to the social sciences; and dynamical systems and celestial mechanics. Dr. Saari is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, where he has taught since 1990. Dr. Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economic Studies for his work in game theory. 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 received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. William Schlesinger is James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry and Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. Dr. Schlesinger received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1976. Dr. Schlesinger's expertise lies in global environmental change, focusing on chemical changes in the environment, especially soils that relate to changes in global climate and desertification. He is the global leader in defining the limited influence of carbon dioxide on primary productivity in forests as well as the role of soils in affecting the global budget of carbon and ammonia. Dr. Schlesinger has testified before U.S. House and Senate Committees on a variety of environmental issues, including preservation of desert habitats and global climate change. He is a member of the Committee on Global Change Research of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society's Committee on Research and Exploration. Schlesinger also serves as Vice President for Finance and Investments for the Ecological Society of America. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. David Victor is Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) and Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. The PESD, launched in September 2001, focuses on the economic and environmental consequences of energy consumption. Much of the program’s research examines how the availability of modern energy services, such as electricity, can affect the process of economic growth in the world’s poorest regions. Previously, Dr. Victor directed the Science and Technology program at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where he studied the sources of technological innovation and the impact of innovation on economic growth. His research also examined global warming policy, forest protection, and genetically modified food. Before joining the council, Dr. Victor directed a three-year multinational research project on the implementation of international environmental treaties at IIASA in Austria. His IIASA research examined how the international system monitors, verifies and enforces compliance with environmental treaties. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in History and Science from Harvard University. Ex-Officio Members Norman P. Neureiter is an ex-officio member of the committee by virtue of his service as a trustee to IIASA's newly established endowment fund (IEF). Dr. Neureiter was appointed Director of the new Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004. Dr. Neureiter was a Fulbright Fellow to Germany from 1955 to 1956 and earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Northwestern University in 1957. After joining the U.S. Foreign Service in 1965, during the height of the Cold War, he became the first U.S. science attaché in Eastern Europe in 1967, based at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland. From 1969 to 1973, he served as the international affairs assistant in President Richard Nixon's Office of Science and Technology. After leaving that post, he worked for Texas Instruments until 1996, serving in his last years there as Director of Texas Instruments in Japan and the Vice President of Texas Instruments Asia. In the closing months of the administration of President Bill Clinton, he was named to a three-year term as science and technology adviser to the Secretary of State, serving first under Secretary Madeleine Albright and then, after President George W. Bush took office, under Secretary Colin Powell. Neureiter left the post in September 2003, after his term expired. Howard Raiffa is an ex-officio member of the committee by virtue of his service as a trustee to IIASA's newly established endowment fund (IEF). Dr. Raiffa is the Frank P. Ramsey Professor (Emeritus) of Managerial Economics, a joint chair held by the Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Professor Raiffa has worked in operations research, game theory, statistical decision theory, decision analysis, risk analysis, behavioral decision theory, and in conflict resolution and mediation and has received lifetime achievement awards from societies representing each of these fields. Back to top