Raymond Duch is an Official Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and the Director of the Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS), which currently has centres in Oxford, Santiago (Chile) and Pune (India). Prior to assuming these positions he was the Senator Don Henderson Scholar in Political Science at the University of Houston. He is currently the Long Term Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Toulouse School of Economics, a Director of the European Political Science Association, and Vice-President of the Midwest Political Science Association. He is a member of the UK Cabinet Office Cross-Whitehall Trial Advice Panel to offer Whitehall departments technical support in designing and implementing controlled experiments to assess policy effectiveness.

Professor Duch’s research focuses on responsibility attribution, incorporating elements of theory, experiments and analysis of public opinion. In 2008 he published an award-winning book, The Economic Vote, that demonstrates that citizens hold political parties accountable for economic outcomes. His experiments have identified the information shortcuts that individuals deploy for responsibility attribution. More recently, Professor Duch has conducted experimental research into cheating, exploring its implications for tax compliance, corruption and economic performance. Professor Duch has conducted lab, field and online experiments throughout the world He lectures and also publishes on experimental methods. His research appears in the leading political science and economic journals. He is the founder of Behavioural Analytics that advises public and private clients.

Jordi Brandts holds a B.A. in Economics from the UAB and a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Research Professor of the Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC) and of the Barcelona School of Economics. He is also a Research Fellow of CESifo and a member of BELIS (Bilgi University, Istanbul). His research is experimental in areas such as the study of cooperation, organizational economics, industrial organizational and market analysis, conflict and the effects of communication on strategic interaction.

From 2008 to 2013 he held the Serra-Ramoneda/Catalunya Caixa Chair at the Department of Business of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. From 2007 to 2011 he was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Experimental Economics. From 2016 to 2021 he was Senior Editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Since 2013 he serves as Advisory Editor for Games and Economic Behavior and since 2016 of the Review of Economic Design. From 2016 to 2020 he was European vice-president of the Economic Science Association and since 2021 he is on the Advisory Board of the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB).

Laura Fortunato is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She studied Biological Sciences at the University of Padova (Laurea, 2003) and Anthropology at University College London (MRes, 2004; PhD, 2009).

Professor Fortunato’s research sits at the interface of biology and anthropology, with the aim to understand the evolution of human social and cultural behaviour, working on a variety of topics including family systems, culture, cooperation, competition, and social complexity.

Sonja is an associate professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne. She uses lab and field experiments to examine the social and psychological mechanisms practitioners can use to tackle societal and environmental challenges related to public health, education, climate change, and land degradation. Much of her research is in collaboration with UN agencies and local NGOs in Sudan, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, India, and Armenia.

Sonja is affiliated with Nuffield College and the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences at the University of Oxford, as well as the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern.

Sonja has published in journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Human Behavior, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, and disciplinary journals in Psychology, Economics, and Biology.

Klarita Gërxhani is Professor in Socio-Economics and head of department of Ethics, Governance and Society, at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Before joining the VU she was professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute (EUI).

Her main expertise lies in the micro-foundations of socio-economics. After completing her M.A. in General Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana, Albania, she received her M. Phil and Ph.D. (2002) in Economics at the Tinbergen Institute and the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam. She continued her academic career as a post-doctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies and the Amsterdam School for Social science Research at the University of Amsterdam.

Astrid Hopfensitz is a professor at the Lyon University in France and member of the GATE lab. Before coming to Lyon she was working at the Toulouse School of Economics and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST). In 2017 she was elected member of the Institute Universitaire de France (IUF).

Astrid main research interest concerns the influence of emotions and psychological dimensions on economic decision making and behavior. She uses economic experiments in combination with psychological methods. In recent years she has been interested in topics related to social ties and social intelligence. She studied applied mathematics (Wirtschaftsmathematik) at the University of Ulm, Germany and economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She did her PhD in experimental economics at CREED, the experimental economics lab at the University of Amsterdam. After her PhD she did her Postdoc at the interdisciplinary center on affective sciences (CISA) in Geneva.