Baruch Fischhoff Dr. Fischhoff is Howard Heinz University Professor in the Departments of Social and Decision Sciences and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where he heads the Decision Sciences major. Dr. Fischhoff is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and he currently chairs the National Research Council Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security. He also chairs the Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Advisory Committee, the World Federation of Scientists’ Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism, and the Department of State’s Global Expertise Program. He is past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and of the Society for Risk Analysis and a recipient of the latter’s Distinguished Achievement Award. He was a member of the Eugene, Oregon, Commission on the Rights of Women and of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Scientific Advisory Board, where he chaired the Homeland Security Advisory Committee.
Dr. Fischhoff is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Society for Risk Analysis. He has co-authored or edited 4 books: Acceptable Risk (1981), A Two-State Solution in the Middle East: Prospects and Possibilities (1993), Preference Elicitation (1999), and Risk Communication:The Mental Models Approach (2001). A graduate of the Detroit public schools, he holds a BS in mathematics and psychology from Wayne State University and an MA and PhD in psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Previous • Next Speaker Bio
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