Nobel Peace Prize Winner Robert Lempert

A Decision-Making Expert Who’s Pretty Pleased With His Own Choices

Robert Lempert is a senior scientist at the RAND Corporation and director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition. He was a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007 along with Vice President Al Gore. Before participating in a panel on the lethal force of water, he talked about the inspiration for his work, predicted where L.A. will be getting its drinking water in the 22nd century, and fessed up …