Our Team

Below is a list of all podcast interviewers (current and past). 

 


Jasmin Baier
 
Research interests 
  • Social learning and belief updating
  • Behavioural development economics
  • Experimental economics
 
Fun fact

I once made it to the finale of a choir TV casting show where our choir performed only covers and medleys of Eurovision Song Contest songs.

 


Adam Ferris

 
Research interests 
  • Pro-environmental decision-making
  • Laboratory and field experiments
  • Attention and salience of information
 
Fun fact

What I study is important for decision architects, and good jokes…. timing, or did I tell that wrong. Only time will tell. 

 


Olivia Flett

 
Research interests 
  • Incentives and commitments
  • Risk preferences
  • Temporal discounting
 
Fun fact

I can speak four languages. 

 


 
Jurin Katayama Flores
 
 
Research interests
  • Health economics
  • Energy economics
  • Development economics

Fun fact

I have a diploma in diamonds from the Gemmological Association of Great Britain.   
 

 
Jonas Frey

 
Research interests 
  • Non standard risk preferences
  • Expectation formation
  • Experimental Economics
 
Fun fact

A Harry Potter fanfiction had a major influence on my research interests. 

 


Laura Fritsch

 

Research interests 

  • Culture and social norms
  • Belief revision
  • Illicit corporate networks

 

Fun fact

I got a scholarship to study painting at university but accidentally fell in love with economics. My parents were upset.

 


Matthew Henderson

 
Research interests 
  • Economics of crime
  • Economic analysis of law
  • Behavioural mechanism design
 
 
Fun fact

I once hiked up an active volcano in Guatemala while it was erupting. 

 

 


Vatsal Khandelwal

 
Research interests 
  • Social networks
  • Development economics
  • Beliefs and social norms
 
 
Fun fact

I am a trained Hindustani classical music singer and can sing several ragas. 

 


Stefania Merone
 
Research interests 
  • Microeconomic theory
  • Behavioural economics
  • Experimental economics
 
Fun fact

I can do a very good impression of the sound a Moka coffee machine does when coffee is ready. It’s still the best prank I play on my brother – it works EVERY time.

 

Jessica Milligan

 
Research interests 
  • Human behaviour
  • Well-being
  • Development
 
Fun fact

I have starred in a Bollywood short film. 

 

 

Shreshtha Mishra

 

Research interests 
  • Behavioural game theory
  • Social norms and culture
  • Development economics
 
Fun fact

I have read more than 500 fiction novels and enjoy writing in my spare time.     

 

 


 
Itzhak Rasooly
Research interests 
  • Game theory
  • Level-k reasoning in auctions
  • Experiments
 
Fun fact

I was cruelly dismissed from my job as a grape picker (in Bordeaux) after a mere two hours of work.

 


 
Simon Sällström

 
Research interests 
  • Conditional cash transfers
  • Economic development
  • Economics of sustainability 
 
Fun fact

I was featured as “Swedish boy lost in mountain area” on Norwegian tv and radio when I was 14.

 


 
Rafael Suchy

 

Research interests 
  • Individual decision-making
  • Choices under risk and ambiguity
  • Individual and social preferences
 
Fun fact

I substituted weightlifting with Economics.

 


Séverine Toussaert

 
Research interests 
  • Self-control
  • Image concerns 
  • Preferences for information
 
Fun fact

I did the opposite of Billy Elliot: 10 years of ballet followed by 5 years of kick boxing. 

 

 


Alena Wabitsch
photo (c) John Cairns
 
Research interests 
  • Behavioral and Experimental Macroeconomics
  • Central Bank Communication
 
Fun fact

I have hiked the Inca Trail for 4 days in Peru, but have never actually seen Machu Picchu.


Le Wu

 

Research interests 
  • Human behaviour
  • Beliefs
  • Social interactions
 
Fun fact

I have been to more than 30 countries.