It will bring the same unparalleled level of fact-based, objective reporting and analysis to policymaking as it has provided to the financial community for the past 27 years.
That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.
As an official in President George Bush's Office of Management and Budget, and previously as head of Harvard University's Centre for Risk Analysis, he has built a reputation for evidence-based policymaking.