Nicholas Institute Faculty Advisory Committee

Jonathan B. Wiener
A member of the Duke faculty since 1994, Wiener studies the interplay of science, economics, and law in addressing environmental and human health risks. Before coming to Duke, he worked on U.S. and international environmental policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and Office of Science and Technology Policy, and at the U.S. Department of Justice, in both the first Bush and Clinton administrations. He also helped organize the environmental component of the Americorps national service program. His policy work and writing have addressed topics including climate change, forests conservation, risk and risk-risk tradeoffs, biotechnology, mass torts, and incentives in regulation and litigation. He attended the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. In 2008 he served as president of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA); in 2003 he was awarded the Chauncey Starr Young Risk Analyst Award by the SRA for the most exceptional contributions to the field by a scholar aged 40 or under. He has been a University Fellow of Resources for the Future (RFF) since 2002. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (1999), EHESS in Paris (2005–2006), the University of Chicago Law School (2007), and Sciences Po (2008).