Department: Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
University: University of Exeter
Bio:
Professor Oliver Hauser is Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter, where he is also Deputy Director (and formerly interim Co-Director) of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. In addition, he is a Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. He is also a Senior Advisor to Cabinet Office’s and HM Treasury’s Evaluation Task Force, and serves on several advisory boards in the UK public sector.
As a faculty affiliate of the Centre for Leadership at the University of Exeter Business School, Professor Hauser advises and works with a wide range of leaders and organisations: He is the academic advisor to behavioural science consultancy MoreThanNow, an academic associate of the Behavioural Insights Team (“Nudge Unit”), an advisory board member of MeVitae, and an affiliate at the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics at the University of Vienna and an Invited Researcher at J-PAL North America. His currently also serves as Vice-Chair of the BBC Children in Need’s South West Advisory Committee and a Trustee of Beacon Collaborative.
Professor Hauser previously held academic posts at the Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Extension School. He has held prestigious fellowships at the Alan Turing Institute, the Harvard Behavioral Insights Group and Harvard Women and Public Policy Program. He earned his Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University and B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Innsbruck.
Professor Hauser's research has been published in leading academic journals such as Science, Nature, Quarterly Journal of Economics, PNAS, Management Science, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications, Science Advances, The Leadership Quarterly, and Behavioural Public Policy. He also translates the findings of this research into writings for senior leaders and managers in the Harvard Business Review and Exeter Expertise. His research has also drawn attention from news outlets such as the Forbes, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, Vox, Slate, Yahoo, The Conversation, and VICE.