Bjorn Lomborg
Adjunct Professor, Copenhagen Business School; Author, "Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming"
Bjorn Lomborg is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School and the author of "Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming." He is also the organizer and director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which brings together some of the world's top economists, including five Nobel laureates, to set priorities for the world. Foreign Policy magazine named him "One of the 100 Top Global Thinkers" in 2010. In 2008, he received an honors trifecta: He was named one of the Guardian's "50 People Who Could Save the Planet"; one of the "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" in a combined reader survey by Foreign Policy and Prospect; and one of Esquire's "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century."
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.