Environmentalist and author will conclude spring Presidential Lecture Series

Bjorn Lomborg
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Danish environmentalist and author Bjorn Lomborg will conclude Purdue’s Spring 2017 Presidential Lecture Series.

Lomborg will join Purdue President Mitch Daniels for an hourlong conversation and audience Q&A session at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (April 11) in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

As president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, an economic think-tank, Lomborg leads a team of researchers looking to use economic principles to find solutions to global issues. He is also a visiting professor of strategic management and globalization at the Copenhagen Business School.

Lomborg was selected one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2004. He has authored several books, including “The Skeptical Environmentalist, Measuring the Real State of the World,” which examines the veracity of many of the most publicized claims and predictions on environmental issues. Lomborg was previously director of the Danish government’s Environmental Assessment Institute.

J.D. Vance, contributor to the New York Times and author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” Stan Druckenmiller, renowned investor and philanthropist, and Doug Brinkley, presidential historian, were previous guests for this spring’s series.

Writer: Brian Peloza, 765-496-9711, bpeloza@purdue.edu 

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