Sanchayan Banerjee is a doctoral researcher in behavioural and environmental economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), a fellow of LSE Educational Enhancement Centre, and a Visiting Fellow in School of Politics and Economics at King’s College London. He will be joining Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as an Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics in September 2022.

Sanchayan has developed the economic and psychological theory of Nudge+. He uses nudge+ to engage citizens in nudges to promote better behaviours, such as low carbon diets, lower food waste, improved vaccine uptake, donations to pro-social charities, et cetera. He has been awarded many prestigious scholarships and grants for his current research, namely the LSE Robert and Dilys Rawson doctoral scholarship, the Knowledge, and Exchange Impacts award for outreach of Nudge Plus, the RGS-IBG Frederick Soddy postgraduate award. He is part of a research team that has been recently awarded a British Academy Grant for Covid19 recovery.

His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the journals of Behavioural Public Policy, Behavioural Public Administration and Games. In the last three years, Sanchayan has reached out to over 450 policymakers globally to help them adapt in how to Nudge+. Sanchayan regularly interacts with different stakeholders to help them improve their practices such as Scotland Zero Waste, Fife Council, Live Nation Entertainment.

Nudge theory, Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics, Environmental Economics, Economics of Climate Change.

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