Zarak Khan

Fellow, Behavioral Science

Zarak Khan is a behavioral scientist with expertise generating and applying insights to organizational strategy, innovation infrastructure, product design, and public policy.

Cited by McKinsey & Company as an "expert forging the future" of behavioral science, he divides his time across industry, academia, and philanthropy. Zarak is the senior manager of behavioral science in Edward Jones' enterprise design team. He is also a senior behavioral researcher at Duke University and a behavioral science fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches applied behavioral science consulting to graduate students. Prior to this, he led corporate innovation at Maritz and was a behavioral science subject matter expert for the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.

Zarak serves as the board chair of Bescy, a nonprofit community of over twenty thousand practitioners and researchers interested in exploring the use of behavioral science and psychology in the design and development of products and policies that help people improve their lives. He graduated from Duke University's Sanford School with a Master of Public Policy degree.