Professor Oliver Hauser
Professor of Economics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, University of Exeter
Oliver conducts research on inequality and cooperation in three main domains: organisations, society and the environment. He is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Exeter. Oliver is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, leading this ambitious seven-year “BIG IDEAs: Using Randomised Controlled Trials to Reduce Bias in the Workplace” initiative.
At Exeter, Oliver is also the interim Co-Director of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and a faculty affiliate of the Centre for Leadership. In addition, he serves as academic advisor to MoreThanNow, and he is an academic affiliate of the Behavioural Insights Team (“Nudge Unit”) and of the WAGE Network of the UK Government Equalities Office. He is currently also Vice-chair of the BBC Children in Need South West Advisory Committee.
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 the Women and Public Policy Program and the Behavioral Insights Group, both at Harvard. 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.