Dr. Lionel Tiger

When Tiger lectures, his interest in basic human nature permits him a robust base for informed contemporary commentary in various fields. He has spoken on a host of topics in a rich array of places - from, recently, the Pentagon Auditorium where he spoke about how new discoveries in the biosocial sciences should affect the Department of Defense to Millsaps College in Jackson Mississipi on the evolution of human sex roles to giving the W.E.B. DuBois Lecture on the links between natural and social science at Humboldt University in Berlin for the US Embassy. He has addressed the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California on the evolution of human behavior and its impact on organizations and spoken on the role and value of pleasure for the American Institute of Wine and Food at the National Press Club in Washington DC. He gave the opening address to the International Association of Culinary Professionals at their Annual Meeting in Chicago on social/ psychological factors in contemporary consumption of food.

In October 2003 he presented a paper, entitled, "Future Sex," at a conference, "The Next Thousand Years," at Rockefeller University, sponsored by its Program for the Human Environment. In August 2003 he gave a plenary address to the annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences in Philadelphia, entitled, "Is Defense Always Offensive; Adventures in the War Zone." In December 2002 he gave the Bradley Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington - "The Human Nature Project" - a review of how emerging work on genomics, neurophysiology, and comparative cultural anthropology may affect notions of human rights and needs. He gave a series of lectures at Universities in Slovakia in 2001 on the links between the natural and social sciences, and addressed the Board and senior management of the United Biscuit Company in England on the evolution of tastes in food and the impact of changes in families and social organization on how food is chosen, consumed, and enjoyed. He has lectured on the decline of males at the Universities of Vienna, San Francisco State, California at Santa Barbara, Arizona, Wayne State and Southern California in Los Angeles, among other places.

Among the universities where he has been asked to lecture are: Columbia, Moscow, Minnesota, Princeton, Penn State, Harvard, Max Planck Society in Bavaria, Johns Hopkins, The Kennedy School, Hydrabad and Jaipur in India, Hebrew, Tel Aviv and Haifa in Israel, Chicago, Smith College, Amsterdam, National Defense University Washington, Brown, McGill, Los Andes Bogata Colombia, Candido Mendes Rio de Janiero, Calgary, Michigan State, British Columbia, University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris, The New School New York, The Army War College, Dartmouth College, Alberta, Instituto Scientifico H. San Raffaele Milan, the Smithsonian Institution, and the American Museum of Natural History.

Over the years he has lectured to dozens of companies and organizations such as IBM, Pfizer, the Aspen Institute, United Nations Program on Drug Abuse Vienna, the Upjohn Company, the Russian Academy of Management in Moscow, Yale Law School, the Lockheed Corporation, Planned Parenthood of New York, the Brunswick Corporation, The Harvard Business Review, and Johnson and Johnson on social factors affecting the successful conduct of business and social service. Recent audiences were the Scientific Advisory Board of the Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, and the Century Association in New York where his subject was "Is Defense Always Offensive? Adventures in the War Zone" and the management staff of the Rutgers University Health Services on the impact on male students of current developments in sex roles among men and women.

Lionel Tiger has served as a consultant to a variety of institutions and companies. He has been an expert witness in trials involving murder and injury as a result of initiations at colleges, among others. He has advised law firms and businesses concerned with sexual harassment issues and architectural and industrial design firms on the behavioral consequences of choices made by planners and designers.

He has been a consultant to the Director of Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense on issues ranging from the role of cognition in affecting behavioral choices and the effect of such stimuli as drugs, fatigue, loneliness, sexuality, and morale on the conduct of individuals and organizations. He chaired a Study Session at the Naval War College in Newport RI for the Director of Net Assessment and the Secretary of the Air Force on the impact of new biosocial research on military issues. He has advised entities such as Upjohn (now Pharmacia), the Revlon Corporation, J. Walter Thompson, the Sawyer-Miller Group, the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, and the Science Advisory Board of the Secretary of the Air Force. He was a member of a task force established by the Secretary to analyze terrorism in the context of asymmetric warfare. He has consulted for Booz, Allen, and Hamilton as well as the Canadian Management Association and chaired a Board of Advisors for the magazine US NEWS and WORLD REPORT. He is currently a Senior Research Consultant to the National Institute of Public Policy in Fairfax VA on a project evaluating forms of military and political deterrence in the contemporary context.

In a more public realm, he has appeared on dozens of television and radio programs, including among others NPR, Charlie Rose, Nightline, the Today Show, the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CNN, and PBS as well as local shows in many cities in the USA, Canada, and Europe. He has been interviewed frequently and cited in a generous array of publications ranging from the New York Times to Rolling Stone, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, the Toronto Globe and Mail, the Financial Times, New York Magazine, Men's Health, Business Week, Fortune, Cosmopolitan, Newsweek, the Observer of London, La Republica in Italy, and L'Express in France