M. Granger Morgan is Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University where he is also University and Lord Chair Professor in Engineering.
He is also a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Professor Morgan holds a BA from Harvard College (1963) where he concentrated in Physics, an MS in Astronomy and Space Science from Cornell (1965) and a Ph.D from the Department of Applied Physics and Information Sciences at the University of California at San Diego (1969).
His research addresses problems in science, technology and public policy. Much of it has involved the development and demonstration of methods to characterize and treat uncertainty in quantitative policy analysis. He works on risk analysis, management and communication ; on problems in the integrated assessment of global change ; on improving health, safety, and environmental regulation ; on energy systems, focused particularly on electric power ; and on several other topics in technology and public policy.