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

Angela Duckworth 

Professor Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania

Nicholas Epley

Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago

Baruch Fischhoff

Howard Heinz University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

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

Elizabeth Levy Paluck

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

Daniel Oppenheimer

Professor of Psychology and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Todd Rogers

Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School

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.

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