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Dr. Bjorn Lomborg is an outstanding author, professor and lecturer. A controversial Danish environmentalist, he is considered by The Guardian newspaper as "one of the 50 people who could save the planet". Lomborg is the author of the controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist.
Bjorn Lomborg is an internationally recognized political scientist and economist known for his alternative views on responding to climate change and his work towards solving other pressing matters impeding human development, such as malaria and malnutrition. Dr. Lomborg is an adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School and regularly works with many of the world’s top economists, including 7 Nobel Laureates. He is the founder and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, one of the most highly regarded think tanks in the world. It was ranked by the University of Pennsylvania as one of the world’s “Top 25 Environmental Think Tanks”.
Bjorn Lomborg is an academic and the author of the best-selling books "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet", "The Skeptical Environmentalist" and "Cool It". Dr. Lomborg challenges mainstream concerns about development and the environment and points out that we need to focus attention on the smartest solutions first. He is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School, and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which brings together many of the world's top economists..
Dr. Bjorn Lomborg writes for publications such as The New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Economist, The Guardian and many others, and his monthly column gets published in about 40 papers in 19 languages with more than 30 million readers. He has appeared on David Letterman, Larry King, 20/20, 60 minutes, and numerous times on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, BBC World.
Throughout his writing and speaking, Bjorn Lomborg’s optimistic tone on humanity’s potential to manage challenges like climate change distinguishes him from the “doom and gloom” outlooks that often dominate much of the public dialogue concerning the planet’s ecological state.
Bjorn Lomborg researches the smartest ways to improve the environment and the world. Thanks to his work he has been named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine, one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st Century by Esquire magazine, one of the 50 people who could save the planet by The Guardian, and one of the top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy.
