Bjørn Lomborg

Bjørn Lomborg (born January 6, 1965) is a Danish political scientist and former director of the Institute for Environmental Assessment in Copenhagen. In 2001, he attained significant attention by penning The Skeptical Environmentalist, a controversial book whose main thesis is that many of the claims and dire predictions of environmentalists are exaggerated.

Biography

Bjørn Lomborg spent one year as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia, earned a Masters in political science at the University of Aarhus in 1991, and earned a Ph.D. at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, 1994.

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Undergraduate - University of Georgia - Masters - University of Aarhus - 1991 - Ph.D. - University of Copenhagen - 1994

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He taught as an associate professor, lecturing in statistics, in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus.

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Associate professor - Statistics

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In 1996, his only scientific paper subject to peer review to date was published in the American Sociological Review, Evolution of Social Structure in the Interated Prisoner's Dilemma (vol. 61(2):278-307).

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1996 - Peer review

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In 1998, he published four lengthy articles about the state of our environment in the leading Danish newspaper Politiken, which according to him "resulted in a firestorm debate spanning over 400 articles in major metropolitan newspapers."

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1998 - Article - Environment - Politiken

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In November 2001, he was selected "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum. In March 2002, the newly elected center-right prime minister appointed Lomborg to run Denmark's new Institute for Environmental Assessment.

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November - 2001 - World Economic Forum - March - 2002 - Prime minister - Institute for Environmental Assessment

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Lomborg declared on the 22nd of June 2004 his decision to resign from his post to go back to the University of Aarhus, citing that his work in the Institute was done and that he better could service the public debate from the academic sector. But he left the University on February 1, 2005. He is now an adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School.

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June - 2004 - February 1 - 2005 - Copenhagen Business School

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