Keynote Speaker in Climate Linked Economics: Moving Day

The effects of rapid climate change are already being reflected in insurance markets in the US, and will soon be felt in pockets of property holdings as they suddenly reprice. What can public and private institutions do to help Americans continue to lead thriving lives, in a legal and financial context that is devoted to keeping the status quo in place?

Susan Crawford is Senior Fellow, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics, at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is also a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School. She is the author of Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm, Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution—and Why America Might Miss It, Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, and co-author of The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance.

She served as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy and co-led the FCC transition team between the Bush and Obama administrations. She also served as a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology and Innovation and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Broadband Task Force.

She was one of Politico’s 50 Thinkers, Doers and Visionaries Transforming Politics in 2015; one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology (2009); and one of TIME Magazine’s Tech 40: The Most Influential Minds in Tech (2013).