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Vicki Marion Bier is an American systems engineer and decision analyst whose work concerns risk management, disaster preparedness, and critical infrastructure protection, including analysis of the safety of nuclear power, anti-terrorism, and preparedness for sea level rise caused by global warming. She is professor emerita of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an external fellow in the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events at the University of Southern California, and editor-in-chief of the journal Decision Analysis. Vicki works for homeland security as risk analyst specializing in probabilistic risk.

Early life and education

Vicki Bier was born in New York City to two "risk-aversive parents". Her family moved to Tucson, Arizona when she was in the first grade. In 1976, she received an undergraduate degree in mathematical sciences at Stanford University. With Alvin Drake as her advisor, Vicki did her doctoral studies at MIT. she also worked with Alvin’s then wife-Liz Drake. With the help of Liz Drake, Vicki got a risk analysis job in the chemical and petrochemical field with Arthur D. Little, Inc. Vicki also worked with the social and economic impact of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March 2011.

Recognition and awards

Vicki Bier has been president of the Decision Analysis Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the management Sciences (INFORMS)in 2018. She received the award of outstanding service in 2000, and the award of Distinguished Achievement in 2007 by the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA).