Meet our team from offices around the world.
Executive team
Professor David Halpern CBE
President & Founding Director
Ed Bradon
Director, Home Affairs, Security and International Development
Nida Broughton
Director, Economic Policy
Elisabeth Costa
Managing Director, BIT UK
Rachel Coyle MBE
Global Managing Director
Dr Rory Gallagher
Managing Director, Australia and Asia-Pacific
Dr Alex Gyani
Managing Director, APAC
Dr Michael Hallsworth
Managing Director, BIT Americas
Hugo Harper
Director
Nicky Kerr
Director, Legal and General Counsel
Alex Sutherland
Chief Scientist and Director of Research and Evaluation
Sasha Tregebov
Director, BIT Canada
Ian West
Director, Finance
Heather Melville
Global Human Resources Director
All staff
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Elizabeth Bennett
Principal Advisor, Labor and Social Protection
Dr Elizabeth Convery
Head of Research (Australia)
Ellie Lugt
Senior Advisor
Elliot Hoffman
Program Manager
Elspeth Kirkman
Chief Programmes Officer - Nesta
Emily Bushby
Nesta Group Chief Financial Officer, Finance
Dr Emily Cardon
Director, Evaluation and Methods
Dr Emily Gray
Associate Advisor
Emily Larson
Principal Advisor, International Development
Erin Britton
Senior Advisor
BIT Global Board
BIT US Board
Academic affiliates
Angela Duckworth
Founder and CEO of Character Lab
Cass Sunstein
Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard
Daniel Goldstein
Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research
David Zendle
Lecturer of Computer Science at the University of York
Elizabeth Linos
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School
Gus O'Donnell
Member of the House of Lords, Former Cabinet Secretary & Head of the Civil Service
Michael Norton
Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
Michelle Ryan
Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology, University of Exeter
Nick Chater
Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School
Dr Oliver Hauser
Senior Lecturer in Economics at University of Exeter
Peter John
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at University College London
Peter Tufano
Dean of Said Business School, University of Oxford
Richard Thaler
Professor of Behavioural Science and Economics at the Chicago Booth School of Business, Co-author of 'Nudge'
Rob Ranyard
Visiting Professor, Centre for Decision Research Leeds University Business School
Silvia Saccardo
Assistant Professor, Dept of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Simon Burgess
Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol
Dr Thekla Morgenroth
Research Fellow of Social and Organisational Psychology, University of Exeter
Theresa Marteau
Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit in the University of Cambridge
Todd Rogers
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School