Patt CV
Keynote Presentations from the 2nd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 1 - 13 September 2007
Speaker: Anthony Patt
patt -at- iiasa.ac.at
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Title of the talk: Communicating to policy-makers (pdf: 2MB)
Biosketch
Anthony Patt received a law degree from Duke University in 1991 and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University in 2001. Since 2000 he has been assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Boston University. From 2002 - 2004 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and since 2006 he has been a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). His primary area of research is decision-making under uncertainty in the context of climate related issues. He has led several research projects examining adaptation to climate change and climate variability in Africa, focusing on the use of uncertain and probabilistic scientific information to assist decision-making. Outside of Africa, he has conducted experimental research on decision-making under uncertainty, and the communication of uncertainty to decision-makers, and was a contributing author for the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report on that topic. In addition to ongoing research on climate adaptation, he is currently engaged in work examining how uncertainty and intertemporal preferences influence investment in sources of renewable energy. He has authored over 30 peer reviewed papers, and is co-editing a book on vulnerability assessment with former colleagues from PIK.
