Introducing Zeina Afif, Renos Vakis and Ana Maria Muñoz Boudet
I’m privileged to welcome to A Load of BS the core team at eMBeD, the Mind, Development and Behaviour Unit at the World Bank. Zeina, Ana Maria and Renos are working on the front lines, alongside governments and policy makers, challenging standard policy design and trying to change behaviour in complex, unpredictable environments and solving the thorniest of problems in gender, inequality and poverty among other.
They have worked in over 70 countries, supporting the World Bank by diagnosing, designing, and evaluating behaviourally informed interventions.
My partner BEworks
I'm proud to say that I’m publishing ‘A Load of BS: a practitioner's guide to the BS galaxy’ in harness with my partner BEworks, one of the very best behavioural science consultancies in the world, co-founded by Dan Ariely and Nina Mazar.
BEworks is a multidisciplinary team of behavioural scientists and psychologists working on complex challenges across financial services to healthcare to sustainability, helping businesses reimagine a future in which individuals flourish and prosper. If you're interested in what they're up to, you might check out their BEcurious blog or drop Wardah and the team a line at info@BEworks.com.
Take a look at our full line-up of guests here.
Show notes
How music and magic contribute to behavioural science
eMBeD’s role and purpose
Managing policy makers in complex environments
Using local, cultural and political context to construct behavioural science interventions
Can the skillsets doing BS at eMBeD take you anywhere?
Being gritty
Disaster risk management in Haiti identifying barriers to act on hurricane early response systems encouraging people to go to their shelters
Focusing on solutions that work vs. the best solution
Sustainability: projects are not a one-night stand
Work on vaccine hesitancy
Ensuring diversity in the World Bank
What excites and scares the eMBeD team for the future?
Next time on A Load of BS: A Practitioner's Guide to the BS Galaxy
Next week on the show, I welcome Ada Le, healthcare expert at BEworks and Mousumi Sannigrahi, Head of Commercial for Innovative Medicines at Fosun Pharma US. Alongside poverty, food and education, healthcare is absolutely at the frontier of of problems behavioural science can help solve.
With Ada and Mousumi, I discuss the relationship between behavioural science and the healthcare industry, expectation effects, the psychology around the end of life and hopes for the future.
Please join us! 🩺🏥💊💉😷🩸
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Till next time,
Daniel
eMBeD at the World Bank on behavioural science in complex environments