David Halpern (psychologist)

Halpern at Chatham House in June 2014

David Solomon Halpern[1] FAcSS (born June 1966[1]) is a British psychologist and civil servant, heading the Behavioural Insights Team (unofficially known as the Nudge Unit) spun out from the Cabinet Office.[2]

Education

Halpern attended King's School, Rochester, before attending St John's College, University of Cambridge achieving a 1st[3] in natural Sciences specialising in experimental psychology. He then went on to complete a PhD in social and political sciences, also at St John's College, Cambridge.[2]

Career

Halpern was a research fellow at the Policy Studies Institute (1991–94), a Nuffield College, Oxford prize research fellow (1993–96) and a lecturer in social human sciences at the University of Cambridge (1996–2001).[2]

From 2001-07 Halpern was chief analyst in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. He was then director of the Institute for Government from 2008–10, where he remains a senior fellow.

Since October 2010 Halpern has been director of the Behavioural Insights Team, initially as part of the Cabinet Office and since 2013, as a partially privatised venture.[4] .[2][5] [2]

He currently is a visiting professor at King's College London.[6]

Honours

In 2016, Halpern was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).[7]

Selected works

He has authored or co-authored four books as well as a number of reports:

  • Social Capital (2005).[2]
  • Options for Britain (1996 and 2010).[2][8]
  • The Hidden Wealth of Nations (2010).[2]
  • Inside the Nudge Unit (2015) [9]
  • The MINDSPACE report (Influencing behaviour through public policy), co-author.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08567792/officers
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Benjamin, Alison (5 February 2013). "David Halpern: 'We try to avoid legislation and ordering'". Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  3. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-halpern-09202111/?originalSubdomain=uk
  4. ↑ "Whitehall 'Nudge unit' to be part privatised". BBC. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Institute for Government – our people". Institute for Government. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "King's College London Halpern". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "Eighty-four leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences". Academy of Social Sciences. 19 October 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  8. ↑ "Options for Britain II". Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  9. ↑ Halpern, David (2015). Inside the Nudge Unit: How small changes can make a big difference. WH Allen. ISBN 978-0-7535-5653-5.
  10. ↑ MINDSPACE report (PDF). 2010.
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