Plenary Speakers

  • Plenary Speakers

 

Dr Erez Yoeli

Research scientist at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Director Applied Cooperation Initiative (ACI).

Erez has formerly lectured at both Harvard University and Stanford University. His research focuses on altruism: understanding how it works and how to promote it. He collaborates with governments, nonprofits, and companies to apply the lessons of this research towards addressing real-world challenges like increasing energy conservation, improving antibiotic adherence, reducing smoking in public places, and promoting philanthropy.


Winona Johnson

Senior Behavioural Scientist – Decision Design

Winona is an experienced  behavioural scientist with a Masters from The University of Melbourne in Applied Psychology. She has facilitated impactful behaviour change across multiple industries. As a career consultant  Winona helps her clients to navigate the complexity of what is driving human behaviour, and practically applies evidence based behavioural science in a way that allows them to achieve measurable customer and commercial outcomes.

Dr Morgan Tear

Manager – Behavioural Economics and Research Team (BERT)

The Cabinet Office, Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Queensland Government

Morgan completed his PhD in Psychology at The University of Queensland, focusing on the role of media in social behaviour. He completed a postdoctoral position at the London School of Economics and Political Science, on psychological and behavioural approaches to improving organisational safety culture. While in London, he was funded to conduct research in practice with EUROCONTROL, and also served as a subject matter expert in safety and behaviour science for a collaborative behavioural insights project led by the OECD and its Network of Economic Regulators (NER). He spent five years as a Research Fellow at BehaviourWorks Australia, a Monash University-based behaviour change research consultancy, before joining the Queensland Government’s first central behavioural insights unit in 2023.

Professor David Stadelmann

David studied Economics as well as Mathematics at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) where he received his PhD in 2010 in Economics and Social Sciences. He has been teaching and researching as a professor at the University of Bayreuth (Germany) since 2013 (call at age of 29). David Stadelmann’s research interests include political, public and institutional economics as well as the broad topics of growth, development and international factor mobility. He publishes policy relevant findings of his research in non-academic outlets such as newspapers, magazines and blogs and he is a regular guest at international conferences around the world.

Professor James Alm

James’s research has focused mainly on behavioral responses to taxes, in such areas as tax compliance and tax evasion, the marriage tax, opportunity zones, the determinants of state economic growth, and corruption. He has worked extensively on fiscal and decentralization reforms in many countries around the world. His research has been published in leading economics journals such as The American Economic Review, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Inquiry, Southern Economic Journal, Kyklos, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Economics of Education Review, Economic Analysis and Policy, and Journal of Development Studies, among others. He has also published 11 books. He was the long-serving Editor of Public Finance Review, and he has served on numerous editorial boards.

Prior to coming to Tulane University as Chair of the Department of Economics, Alm was Regents Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, where he served as Chair of the Department of Economics and also as Dean of the Andrew Young School. He has been the President of the Southern Economics Association, and he became the President of the National Tax Association in November 2020. He has recently been named Professor Emeritus of Economics.

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