Jan-Emmanuel De Neve is Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Oxford, where he also directs the Well-Being Research Centre. His research has been published in top academic journals, including Science, Nature, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Psychological Science, Management Science, Journal of Political Economy, and the British Medical Journal. His research was selected among "The Management Ideas That Mattered Most" by Harvard Business Review. He is the coauthor, with Richard Layard, of the main textbook on wellbeing science and an editor of the World Happiness Report.
George Ward is a Junior Research Fellow in Economics at Somerville College, University of Oxford. He completed his PhD at MIT's Sloan School of Management. His work has been published in leading academic journals, such as Management Science, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, American Psychologist, Harvard Business Review, and the American Journal of Political Science. He is a coauthor of the book The Origins of Happiness: The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course.
