Michael Hallsworth

Dr Michael Hallsworth is Managing Director of BIT Americas. Before his current role, Michael led BIT’s global work on health and tax for five years. Michael was previously a Senior Policy Advisor in the Cabinet Office of the UK government and has in-depth experience of both policy development and service delivery for national governments and international organizations. Michael has also been a leading figure in developing the field of applying behavioral science to government, having authored several influential frameworks such as EAST, Behavioral Government, and the MINDSPACE report (which has been cited more than 800 times to date). His work has been published in, among others, The Lancet, the Journal of Public Economics, and Nature Human Behaviour. He is the author of the book Behavioral Insights (MIT Press, 2020).

Michael has a PhD in behavioral economics from Imperial College London, and a First Class MA and MPhil from the University of Cambridge. He is an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at Columbia University and an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London.

Companies

• Associate Royal Society of Medicine (2022)
• Advisory Board Member Penn Center for Social Norms & Behavioral Dynamics (2022)
• Managing Director, Americas The Behavioural Insights Team (2021)
• Editorial Board Member Behavioural Public Policy Journal (2021)
• Honorary Lecturer Imperial College London (2014)
• Advisory Board Member University of Pennsylvania Masters of Behavioral and Decision Making Sciences (2019 — 2022)
• Assistant Professor (Adjunct) Columbia University in the City of New York (2019 — 2021)
• Managing Director, North America The Behavioural Insights Team (2018 — 2021)
• Director, Health & Tax The Behavioural Insights Team (2015 — 2018)