Academy of Behavioral Economics 2019
Decision making in the age of A.I.
Speakers
Alex Pentland
USA
Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pentland is one of the world's most-cited computational scientists, advises among others the UN, Google and AT&T. Forbes selected him as one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world". He helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India.
Francesca Gino
USA
Professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Gino’s research focuses on judgment and decision-making, negotiation, ethics, motivation, productivity, and creativity. Her work has been published in top academic journals, as well as in numerous books. She co-chairs an HBS Executive Education program on applying behavioral economics to organisational problems.
John Van Reenen
USA
John Van Reenen is the Gordon Y Billard Professor in Management and Economics and is jointly appointed as Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Van Reenen has published widely on the economics of innovation, labor markets and productivity. He has been a senior policy advisor to the Secretary of State for Health, Downing Street, and for many international organizations.
Christina Gravert
Denmark
John Van Reenen is the Gordon Y Billard Professor in Management and Economics and is jointly appointed as Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Van Reenen has published widely on the economics of innovation, labor markets and productivity. He has been a senior policy advisor to the Secretary of State for Health, Downing Street, and for many international organizations.
Dina Pomeranz
Switzerland
Dina Pomeranz is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economics at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on public finances and institutions in developing countries. In addition to her research, she is involved in various organizations for evidence-based policy-making.
Michael Schrage
USA
Fellow with MIT Sloan School's Initiative on the Digital Economy. Michael Schrage explores how models and simulations change the way organizations collaborate to innovate. Besides he is a reference book author and works as a consultant for various companies. His customers are among others Prudential, Microsoft, Amazon, Mars and Google.
Ernst Fehr
Switzerland
Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economics. Fehr is director of the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich and a member of the board of directors of FehrAdvice & Partners. The “most influential Swiss economist” (NZZ) was recipient of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize in 2013.
Alexander Wagner
Switzerland
Professor of Finance at the Institute of Swiss Finance at the University of Zurich. He studied economics and law in his hometown Linz, Austria, and later obtained his PhD in Political Economy from Harvard University. Wagner’s research focuses on corporate governance and behavioral finance. He is an independent counsel for PwC.
Shlomo Benartzi
USA
Professor and co-chair of the Behavioral Decision-Making Group at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. He is the author of "Save More Tomorrow" and "Thinking Smarter" and has extensive experience applying behavioural economic insights in the real world, having increased the saving rates of millions of Americans through his work with Richard Thaler (author of Nudge) on "Save More Tomorrow", and has advised many government agencies and businesses.
Dan Goldstein
USA
Principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York. Goldstein researches online behaviour and human decision theory. He holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Chicago and is a sought-after speaker at conferences and management events.
Martin Kocher
Austria
Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Professor of Behavioural Economics at the University of Vienna. Kocher's career includes professorships and scientific positions at universities in Munich, East Anglia, Amsterdam, Brisbane, Gothenburg and Innsbruck. He was dean and academic dean at the Ludwigs-Maximilian-Universität Munich.
Daniel Schunk
Germany
Daniel Schunk is a professor of public and behavioral economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany) and a permanent research fellow at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). His research focuses on experimental and behavioral economics, on economics of education and on public policy. Beyond his work in economics, he maintains active collaborations with neuroscientists, psychologists, geneticists as well as bioinformaticians.
Gerhard Fehr
Switzerland
CEO and Executive Behavioral Designer at FehrAdvice & Partners. Fehr advises politicians, board members, CEOs and top managers of large companies. Fehr graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in business administration and has more than 10 years of management experience.
David Bosshart
Switzerland
Dr. David Bosshart was CEO of the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for consumption, economic and social studies from 1999 to 2020. Since 2020 he has been President of the G. and A. Duttweiler Foundation.
Moderator
Florian Inhauser
Switzerland
Journalist and moderator. Florian Inhauser presents the main newscast at Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, SRF and he is also the anchor of the foreign news magazine «#SRFglobal». With a master in history and anglistics he speaks English fluently. He has also an excellent reputation as an international correspondent, covering conflicts and crises around the globe.
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