Roger Pielke Jr.

Roger Pielke Jr. is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on science and technology policy, the politicization of science, government science advice, and energy and climate. He is concurrently a professor emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder; a distinguished fellow at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan; a research associate of Risk Frontiers (Sydney, Australia); and an honorary professor at University College London.

Before joining AEI, Dr. Pielke was a professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, a visiting professor at the University of Oslo, a senior fellow at the Breakthrough Institute, and James Martin Fellow of the University of Oxford. He also worked as a scientist for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.