Managing Director, BIT Americas; Distinguished Lecturer, Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences
Michael Hallsworth is managing director (Americas) at the Behavioral Insights Team (BIT). BIT was set up by the UK Prime Minister in 2010 as the first government institution dedicated to applying behavioral sciences. BIT is now a world-leading organization that helps organizations to apply behavioral science in support of social purpose goals.
Michael has been a leading figure in developing the field of applying behavioral science to policy issues. For 18 years, he has worked as both an official and an advisor to various governments. He is the co-author of the book Behavioral Insights from MIT Press, and his work has been published in, among others, The Lancet, the Journal of Public Economics, and Nature Human Behaviour.
He has a PhD in behavioral economics from Imperial College London, was an assistant professor at Columbia University, and is a visiting lecturer at Princeton University. He is an advisory board member at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics, a distinguished lecturer for the Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences program at Penn, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Behavioral Public Policy.
