Solving real
world problems.

The Behaviouralist is a research consultancy with a unique blend of academic insight and applied experience.

We founded The Behaviouralist in 2014 to help solve some of the biggest problems facing society, from reducing pollution and waste to boosting productivity, growth, and wellbeing.

The Behaviouralist is a research consultancy with a unique blend of academic prowess and applied experience.

After running some of UK’s earliest applied behavioural economics trials, in 2014, we founded The Behaviouralist to help solve some of the biggest problems facing society - from reducing pollution and waste to boosting productivity, growth, and wellbeing.

Meet our team

Bob is a prominent economist and leader in policy research in law and economics, regulation, and antitrust. He is a Visiting Professor and was formerly the Director of Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Bob previously served as a member of the U.S. Commission for Evidence-Based Policymaking.

Prof. Robert Hahn

Co-Founder & Director

Rob is an experimental innovator and a renowned behavioural economist. His work has improved lives and increased revenues for households, organisations, and governments. He is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University.

Prof. Rob Metcalfe

CRO & Co Founder

Dan is a behavioural expert with extensive experience of delivering successful RCTs and field experiments to the benefit of communities.

Daniel White

Co Founder

Jesper has extensive experience running randomised control trials, particularly with a focus on behavioural change. He has worked on a range of topics, from food security to trade. Jesper holds a Master of Public Affairs from Brown University and an M.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford.

Jesper Akesson

Managing Director

Manu leads research projects and conducts data analytics for The Behaviouralist. He specializes in the design, implementation, and analysis of behavioural change interventions in areas ranging from education to public health and labour markets. Manu holds a Master of Public Affairs from Brown University.

Manuel Monti-Nussbaum

Senior Behavioural Scientist

Eddy is a Senior Researcher and Economist at The Behaviouralist and a Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. He completed his PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests include public economics and development economics. Eddy is also head of our data science team and conducts a large portion of our experimental and econometric evaluations.

Eddy Tam

Senior Researcher

Sam is a microeconomist and a recovering journalist. In addition to his research work, he is responsible for the editorial tone and content of The Behaviouralist's outputs, and for articles written for third party publications. He holds a bachelor degree from the University of York, and an M.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford.

Sam Ashworth-Hayes

Economist

Jay holds an MSc (Distinction) in Organisational and Social Psychology from the London School of Economics. She is a key researcher for The Behaviouralist, and assists Prof Robert Hahn and Professor Robert Metcalfe on a daily basis.

Jayani Chakravarti

Behavioural Scientist

Rebecca is a senior behavioural scientist. She completed her PhD in evolutionary psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and brings an evolutionary approach to The Behaviouralist’s methods. She has a particular interest in environmental policy and ecologically beneficial behaviour change.

Dr. Rebecca Koomen

Senior Behavioural Scientist

Ian specialises in cognitive psychology, behavioural economics and eye tracking. He looks to understand micro decision processes and has applied this in retail, social marketing and customer experience for over 15 years. He has an MA in Psychology from Edinburgh and an MSc in Cognition and Decision Sciences from UCL.

Ian Redpath

Senior Behavioural Scientist

Iranzu is a service designer in TB with an expertise in strategic design and design research. She has worked mostly in the private sector, leading projects for a wide range of companies from retail to financial sector. Her background is also in marketing as she has experience as Product Manager in the pharma-biotech sector.

Iranzu Monreal

Behavioural Service Designer

Canishk is a mathematician and behavioural economist. He holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, an MSc (Distinction) in Applicable Mathematics from the LSE and won the Haya Freedman Prize for his dissertation in behavioural decision science. Canishk assists with research and data analysis, particularly in the social housing sector.

Canishk Naik

Economist

Itzhak is a PhD candidate in behavioural economics at the University of Oxford, where he also obtained his master's and undergraduate degrees. His research interests include behavioural game theory, policy evaluation and experimental design. As a researcher for the Behaviouralist, he helps turn reports into academic papers and review the latest advances in behavioural economics.

Itzhak Rasooly

Research Associate

Our Affiliates

Diane is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and former Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. She is a member of the Natural Capital Committee, a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics, and a researcher at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence. She specialises in the economics of new technologies, markets and competition policy.

Alex is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at St. Catherine’s College. He is also the Deputy Director of the Economics of Sustainability group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and a co-founder of Refugees’ Say, an organisation that is developing new technology for refugee resettlement.

Author of “The Economics of the Financial Crisis”, he is a two-times winner of the Rybczynski Prize for best paper in business economics, awarded by the Society of Business Economists in London. He has extensive experience (seven years as Chief Economist and Head of Business Innovation Strategy at GE) and he is also a member of the Board of Advisors on Information Technology at Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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The Behaviouralist @Tbehaviouralist·

19 Nov 1196758196129546241

Want to combat the global climate crisis by changing behaviour?

Start by understanding what motivates people to behave the way they do.

Read @brettjenks article on how the organisation Rare is doing this:
https://t.co/FAX2zErCNT

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The Behaviouralist @Tbehaviouralist·

12 Nov 1194311988836519937

How to move from rhetoric to reality when it comes to evidence-based policy?

Click here to watch our co-founder, Bob Hahn's, recent talk on this for @techpolicyinst

Moving Evidence-Based Policy From Rhetoric to Reality

Seemingly overnight, ”evidence-based policy” is in vogue. The idea is simple and uncontroversial: The government should produce better evi...

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The Behaviouralist @Tbehaviouralist·

16 Oct 1184422579316154369

Can we nudge cooperation over the environment? For this and other questions on how we can use behavioural science for environmental sustainability, read On Our Best Behaviour, a new blog by TB's own @RebeccaKoomen:

On Our Best Behaviour – Medium

Exploring the science of behaviour change for environmental sustainability.

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12 Sep 1172153286599815168

Fascinating insight into the full customer experience journey this afternoon. We will use all we can to continuously improve and drive a world class service for #CalMac and our customers.

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25 Jul 1154431826884288512

Understanding "pay-it-forward" behaviour using a natural experiment in the WeChat social networking platform.

Identify and understand pay-it-forward reciprocity using millions...

Pay-it-forward reciprocity encourages the spread of prosocial behavior. However, existing empirical evidence of pay-it-forward behavior has been large...

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The Behaviouralist @Tbehaviouralist·

22 Jul 1153263675500896256

"It is easy not to feel dishonest when keeping a wallet without money since you gain nothing from it. But it becomes much harder if money is involved"

Why people are more honest than we think

A study suggests that people are more likely to hand in a cash-filled wallet, rather than an empty one.

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The Behaviouralist @Tbehaviouralist·

5 Jul 1147192147164225536

Extremely relieved to see our work made the list of "clever" nudges!

This project with Virgin Atlantic was the impetus behind the creation of @signol_io, who are doing amazing work building on that base.

Koenfucius@koenfucius

Final plugette for my post about clever, and not so clever green nudges: https://t.co/eYGDDftrjK

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The Behaviouralist @Tbehaviouralist·

4 Jul 1146791738650038273

Organisations put a lot of thought into "nudges" that help people to make better decisions. In this paper, Cass Sunstein makes the case for "sludge audits": finding and removing unnecessary and unintentional frictions that make life harder.
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The Behaviouralist @Tbehaviouralist·

20 Jun 1141662750659272704

“Only 2 rooms left? They don’t expect me to believe that do they? You see that everywhere.”

What happens when consumers are overexposed to nudges?