Oliver Hauser

Oliver Hauser is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Exeter Business School, a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, leading an ambitious seven-year project entitled “BIG IDEAs: Using Randomised Controlled Trials to Reduce Bias in the Workplace”, and a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. He conducts research on inequality and cooperation in three main domains: organisations, society and the environment.

At Exeter, Oliver is the Theme Lead for Behavioural and Experimental Data Science at the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, a faculty member of the Centre for Leadership, and a member of the College Inclusivity Group and of the Sustainability Team, both at the University of Exeter Business School. In addition, he serves as academic advisor to MoreThanNow, a UK-based behavioural consultancy, and is an academic affiliate of the Behavioural Insights Team (“Nudge Unit”).

Previously, Oliver taught and researched at the Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Extension School. He also held Research Fellowships at Harvard’s Women and Public Policy Program and the Behavioral Insights Group. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University in 2016 and his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Innsbruck in 2010.

Oliver's research has been published in leading academic journals such as Nature (see “Social dilemmas among unequals” and “Cooperating with the future”), PNAS, Nature Human Behaviour, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; practitioners' outlets such as the Harvard Business Review; and it has been covered by popular news outlets such as the Boston Globe and Huffington Post. As an educator and researcher, he has received several awards and prizes, including Pacific Standard's "30 Top Thinkers Under 30" award, the Wharton People Analytics research competition prize, the Harvard University Richard J. Herrnstein Dissertation Prize, the Harvard John Parker Award, and several Certificates of Distinction in Teaching.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. (Harvard), S.M. (Harvard), B.Sc. (Univ. Innsbruck)