Baruch Fischhoff

Baruch Fischhoff is Howard Heinz University Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy and Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University. A graduate of the Detroit Public Schools, he holds a BS (mathematics, psychology) from Wayne State University and a PhD (psychology) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, advisors). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and theNational Academy of Medicine. He is past President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the Society for Risk Analysis. He chaired FDA’s Risk Communication Advisory Committee and has been a member of the Eugene (Oregon) Commission on the Rights of Women, Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee, and EPA Scientific Advisory Board, where he chaired the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. He has received Carnegie Mellon’s Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching and College of Engineering Outstanding Mentoring Award, the American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology, Doctorate of Humanities honoris causa from Lund University, Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, and Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement. He is a Fellow of APA, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Psychological Science, Society of Experimental Psychologists, and Society for Risk Analysis. His books include Acceptable Risk (1981, Cambridge), Risk: A Very Short Introduction (2011, Oxford), Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems (2025, Oxford), and Decisions (MIT).