FACTSHEET: Bjorn Lomborg
DETAILS
Author, "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
Adjunct Professor at the Copenhagen Business School
Awarded Competitive Enterprise Institutes Julian Simon Award 2003 http://www.cei.org/2003dinner/pages/CEI012.htm
Much about Bjorn from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lomborg
"Lomborg Errors" counters Lombord misinformation
http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/
Union of Concerned Scientists critique
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/ucs-examines-the-skeptical-environmentalist.html
CEI press release on Julian Simon award http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/archives/K/1/pub1251.html
http://www.lomborg.com/biograph.htm
Biography:
Bjørn Lomborg, born January 6 1965.
M.A. in political science (Cand.scient.pol.) 1991.
Ph.D. at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. 1994.
Assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, 1994-1996.
Associate professor same place, 1997-2005.
Director of Denmark's national Environmental Assessment Institute February 2002-July 2004.
Organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus May 2004, prioritizing the best opportunities to the world's big challenges.
Adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School 2005-.
Director for the Copenhagen Consensus Center 2006-.
KEY DEEDS
24 January, 2005
Featured speaker at an "exclusive" luncheon hosted by the Fraser Institute in January 2005. Discussed his new book "Global Crises, Global Solutions."
Source: Fraser Institute website 2007
ORGANIZATIONS
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Source: Bjorn gets Julian Simon Award from CEI
Fraser Institute
Source: Fraser Institute website 2007
Heartland Institute
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org
SOURCES
Bjorn gets Julian Simon Award from CEI
photo of Lomborg receiving award from Fred Smith of CEI and widow of Julian Simon
http://www.cei.org/2003dinner/pages/CEI012.htm
Fraser Institute website 2007
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=ev&id=311
Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org
http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/