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
Personal details
SpouseJimmy Li
Alma materB.A. Yale
Ph.D. Oxford
postdoctoral fellowship Stanford
Websitemayashankar.com

Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the creator, host, and executive producer of the podcast, A Slight Change of Plans,[3] made in collaboration with Malcolm Gladwell's production company, Pushkin Industries.

Shankar served as a senior advisor in the Obama White House, where she founded the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team,[4] which was formalized by Executive Order 13707 in 2015.[5] Her work at the White House was profiled by The New Yorker in 2017.[6]

Shankar also served as the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations[7] and is a Director at Google.[8] Shankar is a graduate of the pre-college program at the Juilliard School, where she was a private violin student of Itzhak Perlman.[9] When she was a teenager, she injured a tendon in her left hand, bringing her musical career to an end.[10][11]

Maya Shankar is the daughter of Ramamurti Shankar, Indian theoretical particle physicist and a professor at Yale University.[12]

Education

Shankar 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, Shankar completed her postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at Stanford University.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 "White House Author: Maya Shankar". whitehouse.gov. 6 August 2014. Archived from the original on January 21, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2019 – via National Archives.
  2. ↑ "Secretary-General Meets UN Adviser on Behavioural Insights". United Nations. Retrieved 2016-12-12.
  3. ↑ "A Slight Change of Plans - Pushkin". 10 May 2021.
  4. ↑ Thaler, Richard (June 2016). Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. p. 344. ISBN 978-0-393-35279-5.
  5. ↑ "Using Behavioral Science Insights To Better Serve the American People". Federal Register. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Can Behavioral Science Help in Flint?". The New Yorker. 16 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "Maya Shankar Joins Center as Research Scholar". 2016-10-18. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  8. ↑ "Maya Shankar". LinkedIn. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Loss and Renewal". NPR.org. NPR. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Why We Do What We Do". End Well. March 27, 2019. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Loss and Renewal: Moving Forward After A Door Closes". NPR. December 31, 2018. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  12. ↑ "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.
  13. ↑ "Maya Shankar | SIEPR Policy Forum". stanford.edu. Archived from the original on April 25, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
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