Professor Roger E. Kasperson received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1966.  Before coming to Clark he taught at the University of Connecticut and Michigan State University.  He has written widely on issues connected with risk analysis, risk communication, global environmental change, risk and ethics, and environmental policy.  Dr. Kasperson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He has been a consultant or advisor to numerous public and private agencies on energy and environmental issues, and has served on various committees of the National Research Council and the Council of the Society for Risk Analysis.  From 1992 to 1996 he chaired the International Geographical Union Commission on Critical Situations/Regions in Environmental Change.  He was Vice President for Academic Affairs at Clark University from 1993 to 1996, and in 1999 was elected Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, a post he held through 2004.  He now serves on the Human Dimensions of Global Change Committee and the Committee on Strategic Advice for the Climate Change Program of the U.S. National Research Council, and is Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist at Clark University.