Jonathan B. Wiener is the William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences at Duke, and Professor of Public Policy Studies at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke. From 2000-05 he served as the founding Faculty Director of the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions. Since 2002 he has been a University Fellow of Resources for the Future (RFF), the environmental economics think tank. He has written widely on U.S. and international environmental law and risk regulation, including numerous articles and the books Reconstructing Climate Policy (AEI Press 2003, with Richard B. Stewart) and Risk vs. Risk (Harvard University Press 1995, with John D. Graham). In 2003, he received the Chauncey Starr Young Risk Analyst Award from the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) for the most exceptional contributions to the field of risk analysis by a scholar aged 40 or under. In 1999 he was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Before coming to Duke in 1994, he served in both the first Bush and Clinton administrations, at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and at the Environment Division of the United States Department of Justice. He received his J.D. (1987) from Harvard University, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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