Maya Shankar

Maya Shankar is Global Director of Behavioral Science at Google since March 2017. [3] Shankar is a former violinist, founded The White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team in 2015. She served as an advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy while on a fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[4] Shankar also served as a United Nations Senior Adviser on Behavioural Insights.[5] She served as a visiting research scholar at Princeton's Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy in the fall of 2016.[5]

Maya Shankar
Senior Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy[1]
In office
April 2013 – January 19, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences Team[1]
In office
September 2015 – January 19, 2017
First Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations
In office
January 2016 – October 2016[2]
PresidentSecretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
Global Director of Behavioral Science at Google
Assumed office
March 2017
Personal details
Spouse(s)Jimmy Li
Alma materYale
Oxford
Stanford

Maya Shankar is the daughter of Ramamurti Shankar, Indian physicist and Yale University Professor.[6]

Education

Maya earned her B.A. from Yale University in Cognitive science and went on to earn her Ph.D from the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 2013 Maya went on to complete her post-doctoral fellowship in Cognitive neuroscience at Stanford University.[7] She is a former graduate of the Juilliard School of Music pre-college division and a private violin student of Itzhak Perlman.[6] When Shankar was 17, she tore a tendon in her left hand, bringing her musical career to an end. [8][9]

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References
  1. "White House Author: Maya Shankar". The White House. Archived from the original on January 1, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  2. "Secretary-General Meets UN Adviser on Behavioural Insights". United Nations. Retrieved 2016-12-12.
  3. "Maya Shankar". LinkedIn. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  4. Thaler, Richard. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. p. 344. ISBN 978-0-393-35279-5.
  5. "Maya Shankar Joins Center as Research Scholar". 2016-10-18. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  6. "How Do You Get to Camp? Practice, Of Course; Teenagers Who Play Music, Not Tennis". New York Times. June 27, 2002. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  7. "Maya Shankar | SIEPR Policy Forum". stanford.edu. Archived from the original on April 25, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  8. "Why We Do What We Do". End Well. March 27, 2019. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  9. "Loss and Renewal: Moving Forward After A Door Closes". NPR. December 31, 2018. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
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