Adam Rose Professor Rose is Research Professor in the School of Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California, and Coordinator for Economics at the DHS Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events. He received his PhD in Economics from Cornell University. Much of Professor Rose’s research is on the economics of natural and manmade hazards. He recently served as the lead researcher for a report to the U.S. Congress on the benefits of FEMA hazard mitigation grants; as coordinator of an 8-team collaborative research project for DHS to provide definitive estimates of the economic impacts of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; as a co-principal investigator on a project for the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center to develop methods for analyzing the economic consequences of terrorist threats; and as lead researcher in estimating the regional economic impacts of the ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario. He is currently serving on a National Academies Panel on Earthquake Resilience, working on an NSF grant to estimate the economic impacts of risk amplification following disasters, doing research on the economic impacts of a possible H1N1 pandemic, and developing a hazards decision-support model for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. A major focus of his research on these and other CREATE projects is on resilience to terrorism and natural disasters at the levels of the individual business, market, and regional economy. He is also very active in research on the economics of climate change, primarily in the design of efficient and equitable policy instruments for greenhouse gas mitigation. Professor Rose is the author of several books and more than 150 professional papers. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Regional Science, Energy Policy, and Resource Policy. He has served as the American Economic Association Representative to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Geographers Energy and Environment Specialty Group. He is the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, East-West Center Fellowship, American Planning Association's Outstanding Program Planning Honor Award, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Special Service Recognition Award, and Applied Technology Council Outstanding Achievement Award.
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