Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman was the founder of modern behavioural science and behavioural economics. His close friends and colleagues Gillian Tett, Paul Dolan and Richard Layard will come together to discuss his research and the scale of his influence on society.
Meet our speakers and chair
Paul Dolan (@profpauldolan) is Professor of Behavioural Science in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE, and Director of the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science.
In 2023 Gillian Tett (@gilliantett) took office as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. An anthropologist by training, Gillian was previously Chairman of the US Editorial Board and America Editor-at-Large at the Financial Times. Alongside her role as Provost, she continues to write a weekly column and is a member of the editorial board for the FT. She is the author of, among other books, Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life and the New York Times bestseller Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe.
Richard Layard is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and currently heads the CEP's Wellbeing research programme.
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