Lomborg is adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School and author of
the best-selling "The Skeptical Environmentalist" in which he challenged
mainstream concerns about the environment and pointed out that we need to focus
attention on the most important problems first.
The book had its genesis in 1998, when Lomborg worked as an associate
professor of statistics at the Department of Political Science at the
University of Aarhus in Denmark. He published four lengthy articles about the
state of the environment in a leading Danish newspaper, which resulted in a
firestorm debate spanning over 400 articles in major metropolitan newspapers.
The articles led to the publication of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" in
2001, which has now been published in every major language in the world.
Since the publication of "The Skeptical Environmentalist", Lomborg has been
a frequent participant in public debate. His commentaries have appeared
regularly in such prestigious publications as the New York Times, Wall St.
Journal, Globe & Mail, The Guardian, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Times,
The Australian, the Economist. He has appeared on TV shows such as Politically
Incorrect and ABC 60 minutes, along with shows on CNN, BBC, CNBC, and PBS. In
November 2001, Lomborg was selected Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World
Economic Forum.
From February 2002 to July 2004 Lomborg was director of Denmark's national
Environmental Assessment Institute. During this period he was named one of the
"50 stars of Europe" (as one of the 9 "agenda setters" in Europe) in Business
Week. In April 2004, Lomborg was named one of the world's 100 most influential
people by Time Magazine.
Lomborg organised "Copenhagen Consensus" in 2004, a project which brought
together some of the world's top economists to prioritize the best solutions to
the world's biggest challenges. Essentially, he asked these experts to tackle
the question: With limited resources, how can we do the most good possible?
In 2005 Lomborg was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
and listed as the world's 14th most influential intellectual by Foreign Policy
and Prospect Magazine.
In June 2006 Lomborg repeated the "Copenhagen Consensus" project with top
United Nations ambassadors instead of economists. He managed to bring together
representatives from China, India and the USA, representing about half the
world's population. Their ranking of solutions to the world's challenges was
the first of its kind for the United Nations. These two conferences and their
results have resulted in two books: "Global Crises, Global Solutions" and "How
to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place". The next global
"Copenhagen Consensus" project will be held in 2008.
In September 2007, Lomborg published "Cool It: The Skeptical
Environmentalist's Guide to Climate Change", a groundbreaking book that will
transform the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based
on human needs as well as environmental concerns.
Appointed Project Syndicate "Thought Leader" from 2007 with Joska Fisher,
Jeff Sachs og Joe Stiglitz.
Named one of the "50 people who could save the planet" by the UK Guardian in
2008.
