Princeton University
Eldar Shafir is Class of 1987 Professor of Behavioral Science and Public Policy at Princeton University, Director of Princeton’s Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy, scientific director at ideas42, a non-for-profit social science R&D lab, and Visiting Professor at Oxford University.
His research focuses on cognitive science and behavioral economics, with particular interest in the application of behavioral research to policy. He is Past President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, a Guggenheim Fellow, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Shafir served as a member of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability, and was named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2013. He edited “The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy (2012),” and co-authored, “Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (2013).”
He received a BA from Brown University and a PhD from MIT.
Personal website: https://scholar.princeton.edu/shafir