Cass Sunstein

Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioral Insights and Sciences for Health. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President's Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has advised officials at the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank, and many nations on issues of law and public policy. He serves as an adviser to the Behavioral Insights Team in the United Kingdom.

Sunstein is author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including his most recent books: “How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be” (May 2024), “Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There” (Feb 2024), “How to Interpret the Constitution” (2023), “Decisions About Decisions: Practical Reason in Ordinary Life” (2023), “Default Nudges: From People's Experiences to Policymaking Implications” (2023), “Bounded Rationality: Heuristics, Judgment, and Public Policy” (2022), “Nudge: The Final Edition” (2021), “Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do About It” (2021) and “Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don't Want to Know” (2020).