Bjørn Lomborg is the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a role he has held since the Center's inception in January, 2006. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School.

Bjørn Lomborg is author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming. He edited two books based on Copenhagen Consensus 2004: Global Crises, Global Solutions (2004) and How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (2006).

Bjørn Lomborg was named one of the world's 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire magazine in 2008, one of the "50 people who could save the planet" by UK Guardian in 2008, one of the top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy & Prospect Magazine in 2008. He was named one of the 100 globally most influential people by Time Magazine in April 2004.

Bjørn Lomborg was born in 1965 and received a MA (Aarhus) and later a PhD (Copenhagen) in political science. He has previously held roles as Associate Professor at Aarhus University, and director of Denmark's national Environmental Assessment Institute.

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