Baruch Fischhoff, PhD
Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Baruch Fischhoff is a world-renowned expert on decision and risk analysis. He is Howard Heinz University Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Fischhof is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine and currently serves on its COVID-19 committee. He has chaired the Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication Advisory Committee and been a member of the Eugene (Oregon) Commission on the Rights of Women, the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee and the Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Advisory Board, where he chaired the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. He is past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the Society for Risk Analysis and has received awards for his intellectual contributions and teaching excellence. Dr. Fischhof’s 13 books include Acceptable Risk, Risk: A Very Short Introduction, and Counting Civilian Casualties. He is a graduate of the Detroit Public Schools, Wayne State University (BS, mathematics, psychology), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD, psychology).
Expertise: Public health, data science, behavioral and decision science, public policy, communications