Vincent T. Covello, PhD

Director of the Center for Risk Communication, NY, NY
P.O. Box 1483
Sag Harbor, NY
Phone: 212-222-7841

D. Vincent T. Covello is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in risk communications: the art and science of communicating effectively in high concern/ low trust situations. He is currently serving as Director of the Center for Risk Communication in New York City.

Over the past twenty-fi9ve years, Dr. Covello has had numerous positions in academia and government, including Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences and Clinical Medicine at Columbia University. Prior to his joining the faculty at Columbia, Dr. Covello was a senior scientist at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in Washington, D.C., a Study Director at the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., Director of the Risk Assessment Program at the National Science Foundation, and a professor at Brown University.

Dr. Covello received his doctorate from Columbia University and his BA, with honors and MA from Cambridge University in England. He is on the editorial board of several journals and is the Past President of the Society for Risk Analysis, a professional association with over 2,500 members.

Dr. Covello has authored or edited over 25 books and over 75 published articles on environmental risk assessment, management, and communication. Among his books are Risk Assessment Methods; Approaches for Assessing Health and Environmental Risks (Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1993) and Effective Risk Communication: The Role and Responsibility of Governmental and Non-governmental Organizations (Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1989). Dr. Covello has also chaired over 30 national and international conferences on risk assessment and communication. In addition, he has directed workshops and seminars on risk assessment and risk communication for over 100 Fortune 500 companies and over 50 government agencies in the United States and abroad.