Henry D. Jacoby is professor of management in the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-director emeritus of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, which is a world leader in integration of the natural and social sciences and policy analysis in application to the threat of global climate change.

He is director of the design and application of the social science component of the Joint Program’s Integrated Global System Model — a comprehensive research tool for analyzing potential anthropogenic climate change and its social and environmental consequences — and he is a leader of MIT research and analysis of national climate policies and the structure of the international climate regime.

John Reilly is the associate director for research in the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and a senior lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management, with a PhD (1983) and MS (1980) in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS (1978) from the University of Wisconsin.

His research career has focused on the integrated assessment of climate change, including modeling of energy use and air pollution, biofuels, and greenhouse gas emissions and climate’s effects on agriculture, including consideration of land use change. His work has been published in more than 150 articles, reports and volume chapters. He has served in a variety of capacities on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was the Co-Chair of the U.S. National Agricultural Assessment on Climate Variability and Change, served on early committees in the federal government that shaped the direction of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, and on a wide range of advisory committees. Prior to joining MIT in 1998, he spent 15 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, with prior service for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Institute for Energy Analysis, Oak Ridge Associated Universities.