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Date:	Thursday, June 25, 2009
Time:	10:00 AM -- 12:30 PM
Location:	Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

Scott Barrett is a professor of environmental economics and international political economy, director of the international policy program, and director of the Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He has advised a number of international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the European Commission, the Independent World Commission on the Oceans, the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Commission on Environmental Law, and the International Task Force on Global Public Goods. He was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change second assessment report and previously served on the academic panel for the U.K.’s Department of Environment. Mr. Barrett received the Erik Kempe Prize for his work on international environmental agreements. His books include Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods (Oxford University Press, 2007). Professor Barrett will soon be moving to Columbia University, where he will be the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics.

Bryan D. Caplan is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. His major fields of interest are public choice, public finance, and monetary economics. Mr. Caplan has published in the Economic Journal, the Journal of Law and Economics, Social Science Quarterly, the Journal of Public Economics, the Southern Economic Journal, Public Choice, and numerous other outlets; he has also contributed articles and op-eds to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (Princeton University Press, 2007) and Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids (Basic Books, forthcoming).

Lee Lane, codirector of the AEI Geoengineering Project, is a resident fellow at AEI and a consultant to CRA International. Previously, he served as executive director of the Climate Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.-based policy research organization that analyzes climate policy and promotes economically efficient policy responses to the challenge of climate change. Mr. Lane is the author of Strategic Options for Bush Administration Climate Policy (AEI Press, 2006) and has contributed chapters to several books on climate change and energy policy. He was also the lead author of the 2006 NASA Ames workshop report on geoengineering. Mr. Lane has consulted with both the American and Japanese governments on technology and energy policy and with private sector clients both here and in Australia.

Thomas C. Schelling most recently held the title of distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, Mr. Schelling was the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 2005, he received, jointly with Robert Aumann, the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  In 1991, Mr. Schelling was the president of the American Economic Association, of which he is a distinguished fellow.  In addition to the Nobel, he has received the Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy and the National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War. Mr. Schelling served in the Economic Cooperation Administration in Europe and has held positions at the White House, Yale University, the RAND Corporation, and the Department of Economics and the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including The Strategy of Conflict (Harvard University Press, 1960), Strategy and Arms Control with Morton H. Halperin (Twentieth Century Fund, 1961), Arms and Influence (Yale University Press, 1966), Micromotives and Macrobehavior (W.W. Norton & Company, 1978), and, most recently, Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays (Harvard University Press, 2006).

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