People

Steering Committee

Marc Fleurbaey
Robert E. Kuenne Professor of Economics and Humanistic Studies
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Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (USA)
He is the author of Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare (2008), a coauthor of A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare (with François Maniquet, 2011), and the coeditor of several books, including Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls (with Maurice Salles and John Weymark,…
Robert O. Keohane
Professor of international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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Woodrow Wilson School, 408 Robertson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544-1013
He has served as Editor of International Organization and as president of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Much of his recent work has focused on issues involving uncertainty and risk in connection with climate change and how international…
Melissa Lane
Professor of Politics and Director of the Program in Values and Public Life
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Department of Politics, 245 Corwin Hall, Princeton NJ 08544-1012
Her interests include ancient Greek political thought and its modern reception as well as a broad range of topics in the history of political thought and in normative theory and public ethics. Her works include Eco-Republic (with Peter Lang, 2011); the introduction to Plato's Republic(Penguin Classics, 2007); Plato's Progeny…
Michael Oppenheimer
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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Robertson Hall 448, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 08544

His research interests include science and policy of the atmosphere, particularly climate change and its impacts. Much of his research aims to understand the potential for dangerous outcomes of increasing levels of greenhouse gases by exploring the effects of global warming on ecosystems such as coral reefs, on the ice sheets and…

Stephen Pacala
Fredrick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute
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103A Eno Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544-1001

His interests include the processes that govern ecological communities, the interplay between community and ecosystem-level processes, and the interactions between the global biosphere and climate. Pacala's research involves all aspects of the global carbon cycle; currently he is focusing on a new model for the terrestrial biosphere…

Harold Shapiro
President Emeritus of Princeton University, and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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359 Wallace Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-0015

His research interests include bioethics, econometrics, science policy, and the evolution of postsecondary education. Shapiro's published work includes A Larger Sense of Purpose: Higher Education and Society (2005); Belmont Revisited, Ethical Principles for Research with Human Subjects (2005); and Universities…

Robert Socolow
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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139 Guyot Hall, Princeton NJ 08544-1012

His current research focuses on global carbon management and fossil-carbon sequestration. Under the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, a 15-year (2000–15) research project supported by BP and the (for the first eight years) Ford Motor Company, Princeton has launched new, coordinated research in environmental science, energy technology,…