Benedikt Herrmann



Support Group to Ukraine, European Commission
Support Group to Ukraine, European Commission

Présentation :

Benedikt Herrmann is working at the Support Group to Ukraine of the European Commission, using insights from behavioural economics to support reform policies of the Ukrainian authorities. Previously he was team leader of the "Behavioural Economics Team" of the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, providing expertise in behavioural economics to different policy fields of the European Commission. With an education in natural sciences and a PhD in economics he researched extensively at Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics at Nottingham University. He joined an economic analysis unit of the European Commission in 2008. In November 2011 he joined the Joint Research Centre to set up the Behavioural economics team. Benedikt has published widely in leading journals of various fields, like “Social Neuroscience”, “Science”, “American Economic Review” and “Quarterly Journal of Economics”.