2026 Conference Speakers

Speakers

With the common goal of exploring ways to collaborate to serve the public interest, our speakers will discuss how behavioral insights can enhance private and public-sector practice, helping bridge the divide between behavioral scientists and practitioners.

Featured 2026 Speakers

More speakers to be announced soon.

Danielle Allen

James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University

Iris Bohnet

Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Amira Boland

Chief of Staff, New Practice Lab & Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University

Gretchen Chapman

Professor of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Robert Cialdini

Regents Emeritus Professor, Psychology, Arizona State University

Angela Duckworth 

Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Nicholas Epley

Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago

Baruch Fischhoff

Howard Heinz University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Craig R. Fox

Harold Williams Professor of Management and Chair of Behavioral Decision Making, UCLA Anderson School; Professor of Psychology and Medicine, UCLA
 

Archon Fung

Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Crystal Hall 

Professor of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington

Michael Hallsworth

Chief Behavioural Scientist, BIT

Morela Hernandez

Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Ezra Karger

Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Director of Research at the Forecasting Research Institute

Judd B. Kessler

Howard Marks Endowed Professor, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Julia Lee Cunningham

Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Michigan

Jennifer Lerner

Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management, Harvard Kennedy School

Elizabeth Levy Paluck

Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology & of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University

Elizabeth Linos

Emma Bloomberg Professor for Public Policy and Management and Faculty Director of The People Lab, Harvard Kennedy School

Julia Minson

Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Founder, Disagreeing Better, LLC

Daniel Oppenheimer

Professor of Psychology and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Todd Rogers

Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School

Tali Sharot

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London; Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences faculty member, MIT

Sim Sitkin

Michael W. Krzyzewski University Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Professor of Management and Public Policy, Duke University

Cass R. Sunstein

Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University

Philip Tetlock

Penn-Integrates-Knowledge Professor, University of Pennsylvania

BSPA 2026 Conference

Sunday, June 7 - Monday, June 8, 2026
(Program begins Sunday afternoon on June 7)

Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

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With the common goal of exploring ways to collaborate to serve the public interest, our speakers will discuss how behavioral insights can enhance private and public-sector practice, helping bridge the divide between behavioral scientists and practitioners.

Thank you to our sponsors

Acknowledgement

We gratefully acknowledge the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Harvard Kennedy School for their support to the co-chairs in hosting and organizing the conference.