Iris Bohnet

Harvard Kennedy School

 

Iris Bohnet is a Behavioural Economist combining insights from economics and psychology and is the Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She serves as Director of its Women and Public Policy Program, Co-Chair of the Behavioural Insights Group (BIG), Associate Director of the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, and the faculty Chair of "Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century" for the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders.

 

From 2011 to 2014, she served as the Kennedy School's Academic Dean. Currently, she serves on the Boards of Directors of Credit Suisse and University of Lucerne, as well as the Advisory Board of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and numerous academic journals. She is a member of the Global Agenda Council on Behaviour of the World Economic Forum.

 

Her research focuses on questions of trust and decision-making, often with a gender or cross-cultural perspective. Her most recent research examines "gender equality nudges," interventions that decrease the gender gaps in organisations, politics and society.