Thomas C. Schelling
Distinguished University Professor
Department of Economics and School of Public Policy
301-405-3494
tschelli@umd.edu

Expertise: foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy and arms control

Dr. Schelling is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for enhancing the “understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.” He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1991 he was President of the American Economic Association, of which he is now a Distinguished Fellow. He was the recipient of the Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy and the National Academy of Sciences award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War. In 1990 he left the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy. He has also served in the Economic Cooperation Administration in Europe, and has held positions in the White House and Executive Office of the President, Yale University, the RAND Corporation and the Department of Economics and Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Most recently he has published on military strategy and arms control, energy and environmental policy, climate change, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism. Other interests include organized crime, foreign aid and international trade, conflict and bargaining theory, racial segregation and integration, the military draft, health policy, tobacco and drugs policy, and ethical issues in public policy and in business. Schelling is best known for his books The Strategy of Conflict and Micromotives and Macrobehavior.