Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Oxford (UK)

Dr. De Neve, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School and the Director of the Wellbeing Research Centre. Dr. De Neve’s research interests are in behavioural economics, public policy and human wellbeing. His research has been published in academic outlets such as Science, Nature, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Political Economy, Psychological Science, The British Medical Journal, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). His ongoing research on wellbeing has led to new insights in the relationship between happiness and income, productivity, economic growth, and inequality. His research was selected among 'The Management Ideas that Mattered Most' by the Harvard Business Review and he was awarded the inaugural Ruut Veenhoven Award for his contributions to the scientific study of happiness. He is a frequent advisor to governments and businesses, including the Gallup Organization and start-ups such as Psychological Technologies, Aula, and Butterfly AI. His research and commentary regularly feature in the media, including in The Economist, the Financial Times, the Harvard Business Review, and on the BBC.