About us

The LSE Behavioural Public Policy Knowledge Exchange Group, funded by the LSE's Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fund, was convened to allow those working in the public and private sectors, the international agencies, the media and academia to meet and discuss the role that behavioural science ought to play in informing decisions that affect society.

Led by Professor Adam Oliver (Department of Social Policy, LSE), the Group was not convened merely to advocate for the use of behavioural science in policy; rather, its objective was to foster greater appreciation between its members of the constraints, limitations, frustrations and opportunities that they face when attempting to inform policy with behavioural science findings in their various institutional settings.

From its foundation, the Group has convened over biannual one-day workshops hosted at the LSE, with the intention of creating a behavioural public policy community of the various interested parties. Its members have reached common consensus in supporting the use of behavioural public policy to strengthen individual agency in the decisions that people take that affect their own lives, to target externality concerns, and to protect and nurture the social instincts.