Oliver Hauser is Professor of Public Policy and the inaugural Director of AI at the Bennett School of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. In addition, he serves as Senior Advisor in the Evaluation Task Force in the UK Cabinet Office and H.M. Treasury. He is a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society.
Professor Hauser is a Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University and London Business School, and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. He is associated with MIT’s J-PAL Initiative and the University of Vienna’s Center for Experimental Economics. Before joining Cambridge, he held academic appointments at the University of Exeter, Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School.
In his public sector capacity, Professor Hauser serves as a member on the Evaluation and Trial Advice Panel, the Government Skills College of Experts, and the Advisory Board on Digital, Data, Innovation & AI Skills. He has advised governments in the UK, US, and Australia, as well as international organisations such as the UN and OECD, on the evaluation of policies and on the responsible and effective use of AI in the public sector.
In the private sector, Professor Hauser is the academic advisor to MoreThanNow, a behavioural science consultancy; an academic associate of the Behavioural Insights Team; an expert member of the Slack AI Workforce Lab member; and an advisory board member of MeVitae, an AI-driven hiring platform. He has advised senior leaders at Fortune 500, FTSE 100 and private companies.
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Background and achievements
Professor Hauser’s research has been published in leading academic journals, such as Nature, Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Management Science, PNAS, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications, and Science Advances. For a complete list of academic publications, click here.
He has translated research-backed findings into practitioner articles for senior leaders and executives, published in the Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. His research has also been covered by international news outlets such as Forbes, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, Vox, Slate, Yahoo, The Conversation, and VICE.
He earned his Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University and B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Innsbruck. He has held prestigious fellowships, including the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships and research fellowships at Harvard University, the Alan Turing Institute and the Behavioural Insights Team.
Professor Hauser has been named one of the world’s best “40 Under 40” MBA professors (Poets & Quants) and previously one of the top “30 Under 30” thinkers (Pacific Standard). He has received several awards for his research, teaching and impact work, including the UKRI Research and Innovation Impact Award, the Wharton People Analytics Research Prize, the Harvard University Richard J. Herrnstein Dissertation Prize, the Harvard John Parker Award, and several Certificates of Distinction in Teaching.