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Symposium Agenda
Washington, D.C. (completed)
Date(s): 12/1/2005
Cannon House Office Building
Caucus Room - #345
Map of the Capitol Complex
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Registration / Reception |
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Continental Breakfast |
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8:30
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Welcome |
John E. Cox, Jr., President,
The Communications Institute
David Rapp, Editor and Senior Vice President, Congressional
Quarterly
Ronald Daniels, Provost, University of Pennsylvania |
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8:40
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Introduction to Risk |
Risk underlies many of the fundamental
choices we make all the time. But as society grows larger and
more interconnected, problems anywhere can have effects everywhere.
What are the big issues of risk we must confront?
Howard Kunreuther, Co-Director, Risk Management
and Decision Processes Center, The Wharton School, University
of Pennsylvania |
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9:00
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Risk: How We See and Deal
with Risk |
Researchers have discovered that regular
patterns shape the way people perceive—and respond to—risk.
How do these perceptions shape our big policy decisions, from
deciding whether to evacuate from a hurricane’s path
to the risks from which we tend to demand government protection?
Moderator: Howard Kunreuther
Panelists:
Matthew Adler, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
Law School
Andrew Hickman, Vice President of Research & Analytics,
RMS Consulting
Robert P. Hartwig, Senior Vice President & Chief
Economist, Insurance Information Institute
Detlof von Winterfeldt, Director, Institute
for Civic Enterprise, School of Public Planning and Development,
University of Southern California
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10:15
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Break |
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10:30
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Confronting Catastrophes:
How to Manage Risk |
Some strategies, from construction techniques
that prevent roofs from being blown off in heavy winds to public
health strategies that minimize the danger from pandemics,
work better than others in managing risks. What principles
should we devise to reduce our exposure to risks—and
to help us recover faster when catastrophes occur given people’s
perceptions of risk and how they learn about risk? How do we
address issues of race and class?
Moderator: Donald F. Kettl, Director,
Fels Institute of Government, University of
Pennsylvania
Panelists:
Baruch Fischhoff, Professor, Department of
Social & Decision Sciences, Department of Engineering & Public
Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Peter Gosselin, Reporter, Los Angeles
Times
Robert Meyer, Co-Director, Risk Management
and Decision Processes Center, The Wharton School, University
of Pennsylvania
Kathleen Tierney, Director, Natural Hazards
Center, University of Colorado, Boulder
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11:45
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Lunch Break |
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12:30
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Building for the Future:
Strategies for the Gulf |
The hurricane-ravaged region provides
a chance to put these principles to work. What strategies—redesigning
New Orleans, building better flood control systems, and managing
environmental hazards, among others—should guide the
nation’s effort to rebuild the Gulf? And, more broadly,
to shape how we think about the government’s role in
shaping local communities to manage risk, now and in the
future?
Moderator: Donald F. Kettl
Panelists:
Kenneth R. Foster, Professor, Department
of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Giegengack, Professor, Department
of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania
Todd LaPorte, Professor, Department
of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Joanne M. Nigg, Professor, Department of
Sociology, former Director, Disaster Research Center,
University of Delaware
Alex Sternhell, Majority Staff Director, Securities
Subcommittee, Senate Banking Committee
Brian Strom, Director, Center for Clinical
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Trebilcock, Visiting Professor
of Law, Yale University, Professor of Law, University of
Toronto |
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1:45
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Governance: Sorting Out
the Public and Private Roles in Managing Risk |
We not only face the task of responsibly
spending $200 billion or more to rebuild the Gulf, we need
to balance private markets and public responsibility. We
need to ensure that the poorest among us do not bear the
greatest cost of this year’s storm or the greatest
risk for future catastrophes. What kind of governance system
is most likely to work most efficiently—and fairly?
How do we sort out the roles of government and the private
sector?
Moderator: Howard Kunreuther
Panelists:
Scott
Harrington, Professor,
Health Care Systems, The Wharton School, University
of Pennsylvania
Jason Johnston, Professor
of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Charles Meade, Senior Physical
Scientist, RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C.
David A. Moss, Professor, Business
Administration, Harvard Business School
Richard Murray, Chief Claims Strategist, Swiss Re
Harvey G. Ryland, President & Chief Executive
Officer, The Institute for Business & Home
Safety |
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2:45
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Moving Ahead |
The
concluding session will focus on how best to
shape policy - and how to build the necessary political
leadership to make the difficult choices that lie ahead
with the participation of the key Congressional staff with
oversight responsibilities on these issues.
Moderator: David
Rapp, Editor and Senior Vice President, Congressional Quarterly
Panelists:
Doug Holtz-Eakin, Director, Congressional
Budget Office
G. William Hoagland, Director of Budget
and Appropriations, Senate Majority Leader William Frist
Daniel Mathews, Staff Director, Subcommittee
on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management,
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (FEMA/Katrina
rebuilding oversight)
Marc H. Morial, President, The National Urban
League, former Mayor of New Orleans
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3:30
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Adjournment |
| John E. Cox, Jr. |
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