Umar Taj is a Doctoral Researcher in the Behavioural Science Group at Warwick Business School. His latest work has led to the development of a behavioural insights solution for social development organisations, which systematically identifies barriers to behaviour change and leads the user to develop interventions to overcome those barriers. His solution has recently been branded by WIN/Gallup International worldwide. Alongside research, Umar has been working as a behavioural consultant for Gallup Pakistan over the last three years and has been involved in social development projects with World Bank, UNDP, USAID and DFID. He holds an MSc in Decision Science from London School of Economics and Political Science.

Julia Kolodko is a Doctoral Researcher in the Behavioural Science Group at Warwick Business School. Her research, funded by the Economic and Social Research council, conducted in collaboration with the Behavioural Insights Team and DEFRA, focuses on applying behavioural insights to environmental and health issues. For over a decade, Julia worked in telecommunications, banking and media sectors, overviewing marketing strategy, communication and consumer research. Julia holds an MA in Cross-Cultural Psychology and has lived and worked in five countries. She is a lecturer at Kozminski University in Poland and a marketing and behavioural change trainer and consultant.

Professor Daniel Read has had a lengthy career as an academic behavioural scientist.  He was educated in Canada, studying at University of British Columbia (where he studied under Daniel Kahneman) and then at University of Toronto, where he received his PhD. He is currently head of the Behavioural Science group at Warwick Business School, and co-leads the Behavioural Science “Global Research Priority” a major Warwick initiative to integrate behavioural science across a wide range of disciplines at the business school. 

Daniel has published in world-leading psychology and economics journals on many aspects of decision making and judgment.  He is world renowned for his work on intertemporal choice, where he has made several fundamental contributions to our understanding of patience and future orientation.   His other work spans both applied and theoretical questions, and includes basic questions about the nature of rationality, how people use incomplete information in decision making, public understanding of risk (especially global climate change), and recent work on how employees judge fairness.  He is an expert in experimental methods, having published over sixty experiments (spread over many papers) in a number of fields.  These experiments are sometimes lab-based, sometimes online, and sometimes in the field.

Daniel has taught and researched at many distinguished institutions, including London School of Economics and Political Science, INSEAD, the Yale School of Management and (currently) Warwick Business School.  Daniel’s teaching focuses on the application of behavioural economics to questions about organizations.   He teaches undergraduate and graduate students on the subject of “strategic games” which applies game theory, information economics and behavioural economics to a wide range of problems from personal, managerial through to global.

Chyue Shz Chew is a second year Accounting and Finance student at Warwick Business School and a recipient of Overseas Scholarship of Malaysia Public Service Sector. Chew has been involved in Nudgeathon from the beginning, helping with advertising, design and organisation. She is currently working on creating a smartphone app and a website aimed at making the world a better place.