Eldar Shafir

Princeton University

 

 

Eldar Shafir is the William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Co-Founder and Scientific Director at ideas42, a social science R&D lab.  He studies decision-making, cognitive science, and behavioral economics.  His recent research has focused on decision-making in contexts of poverty and on the application of behavioral research to policy.

 

He is Past President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, member of the Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics Roundtable, and Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He was a member of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability, and is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Behaviour.

 

He was named one of 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013 by Foreign Policy Magazine. He recently edited a book, The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, and Co-authored (with Sendhil Mullainathan) Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much.  He received his B.A. from Brown University and his Ph.D. from MIT.