Short biography

Dr. Bjorn Lomborg researches the smartest ways to do good. With his think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, he has worked with hundreds of the world’s top economists and seven Nobel Laureates to find and promote the most effective solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, from disease and hunger to climate and education.

For his work, Lomborg was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. He is a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and is a frequent commentator in print and broadcast media, for outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, CNN, FOX, and the BBC. His monthly column is published in many languages by dozens of influential newspapers across all continents.

He is a best-selling author, whose books include "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet", "The Skeptical Environmentalist", "Cool It", "How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place", "The Nobel Laureates' Guide to the Smartest Targets for the World 2016-2030" and "Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the UN's SDGs".

Longer biography

Dr. Bjorn Lomborg is an academic and the author of the best-selling "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet", "The Skeptical Environmentalist" and "Cool It". He 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 Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center which brings together many of the world's top economists, including seven Nobel Laureates, to set priorities for the world. The University of Pennsylvania asked almost 7,000 think tanks and thousands of journalists, public and private donors, and policymakers from around the world to nominate and rank the world's best think tanks. Copenhagen Consensus Center's advocacy for data-driven smart solutions to global challenges were voted into the top 20 among NGOs with up to 100 times' larger budget. The Economist said “Copenhagen Consensus is an outstanding, visionary idea and deserves global coverage.”

Lomborg is a frequent participant in public debates on policy issues. His analysis and commentaries have appeared regularly in such prestigious publications as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Economist, Washington Post, Forbes Magazine, Globe & Mail, The Guardian, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Times, The Australian, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Der Spiegel. Lomborg’s monthly column appears in multiple languages in influential newspapers across all continents. He is a television commentator on CNN, FOX, MSNBC and the BBC, among others, on shows such as “Newsnight”, “20/20”, “60 Minutes”, “The Late Show with David Letterman”, and “Larry King Live”. He was featured in the movie “Cool It”, by Sundance Award winning director Ondi Timoner.

In 2011 and 2012, Lomborg was named Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy "for looking more right than ever on the politics of climate change". TIME Magazine ranked Lomborg among the world's 100 most influential people in 2004. In 2008 he was named "one of the 50 people who could save the planet" by the UK Guardian. In 2005 and 2008, Foreign Policy and Prospect Magazine called him "one of the top 100 public intellectuals", and in 2008 Esquire named him "one of the world's 75 most influential people of the 21st century."

Biographical facts

• Bjorn Lomborg was born January 6, 1965.
• M.A. in political science, 1991.
• Ph.D. in political science at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. 1994.
• Assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, 1994-1996.
• Associate professor at the same place, 1997-2005.
• Director of Denmark's National Environmental Assessment Institute , February 2002-July 2004.
• Organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus prioritizing the best opportunities to the world's big challenges, 2004.
• Adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School 2005-2015
• Organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus prioritizing the best opportunities to the world's big challenges, 2008.
• Organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus prioritizing the best opportunities to the world's big challenges, 2012.
• Visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School 2016-2020
• Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University 
• Organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus prioritizing the best Sustainable Development Targets for the world, 2015.
• President for the Copenhagen Consensus Center 
   

Professional areas of interest:

Simulation of strategies in collective action dilemmas; simulation of party behavior in proportional voting systems; use of surveys in public administration; use of statistics in the environmental arena.   
 

Honors and Accomplishments

• President - Copenhagen Consensus Center
• Visiting Professor - Copenhagen Business School
• Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
• Subject of the movie Cool It
• Author - The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It
• One of the 100 Top Global Thinkers - Foreign Policy, 2011
• Thought Leader - Bloomberg Summit 2011
• One of the 100 Top Global Thinkers - Foreign Policy, 2010
• One of the world's 75 most influential people of the 21st century - Esquire, 2008
• One of the "50 people who could save the planet" - UK Guardian, 2008
• One of the top 100 public intellectuals, Foreign Policy & Prospect Magazine, 2008
• One of the top 100 public intellectuals, Foreign Policy & Prospect Magazine, 2005
• One of the world's 100 most influential people - Time Magazine, 2004