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Roger Pielke, Jr.Sports Governance Center |
Roger Pielke, Jr. has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 2001. He is the director of the Sports Governance Center within the Department of Athletics. Roger’s research focuses on science, innovation and politics. In 2011 he began to write and research on the governance of sports organizations, including FIFA and the NCAA. Roger holds degrees in mathematics, public policy and political science, all from the University of Colorado. In 2012 Roger was awarded an honorary doctorate from Linköping University in Sweden and was also awarded the Public Service Award of the Geological Society of America. Roger also received the Eduard Brückner Prize in Munich, Germany in 2006 for outstanding achievement in interdisciplinary climate research. Before joining the faculty of the University of Colorado, from 1993-2001 Roger was a Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He is also author, co-author or co-editor of seven books, including The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics published by Cambridge University Press (2007), The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell you About Global Warming (2010, Basic Books) and The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters and Climate Change (2014, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes). His most recent book is The Edge: The War Against Cheating and Corruption in the Cutthroat World of Elite Sports (Roaring Forties Press, 2016).
Publications
Pielke, Jr., R. (2017). After April’s March for Science, what next for anti-Trump scientists? The Guardian.
Pielke, Jr., R. (2016). Can anti-doping bodies maintain their scientific integrity? The answer is troubling, The Guardian.
Pielke, Jr., R. (2016). Get ready for the coming wave of technologically enhanced athletes, The Guardian.
Pielke, Jr., R. (2016). Science will never settle the question of sex and gender in sport, The Guardian.
Stilgoe, J. & R. Pielke, Jr. (2016). They may not like it, but scientists must work with Donald Trump, The Guardian.
Pielke, Jr., R. (2016). Catastrophes of the 21st Century, Aon Benfield Australia.
Pielke, Jr., R. (2016). Tracking Climate Progress: A Guide for Policymakers and the Informed Public, IEEJ Energy Journal.
Pielke, Jr., R. (2016). Mehr Saft, Bitte!, Welt-Sichten.
Pielke, Jr., R. (2016). My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic, Wall Street Journal.
Weinkle, J. & R. Pielke, Jr. (2016). The Truthiness about Hurricane Catastrophe Models. Science, Technology & Human Values.
