Artha Global hosted a conversation with Dr. David Halpern, CBE, Chief Executive of the Behavioural Insights Team on the topic, ‘Behavioural Insights in Policy Making’ on Monday, June 19, 2023, from 6:30-8:00 pm IST. This was an in-person event hosted at the Artha Global office in Khar West, Mumbai.
About the event:
David Halpern set up the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) in 2010 inside the UK Prime Minister’s Office, as the world’s first government institution that uses behavioural sciences to examine and influence human behaviour, or to ‘nudge’ us into making better decisions. Since 2010, BIT has run over 1,000 projects, including over 800 randomised controlled trials and over 200 projects in APAC alone. Behavioural insights can help design policies or approaches that encourage, support, and enable people to make better choices for themselves and society. David drew on a decade of BIT’s pioneering work in the UK and 75 other countries to provide a roadmap of how behavioural insights can be applied at scale in India.
About David Halpern:
Dr.David Halpern, CBE is the Chief Executive of the Behavioural Insights Team. David has led the team since its inception in 2010 under the then David Cameron Government. Prior to that, David was the first Research Director of the Institute for Government, a think tank, and was the Chief Analyst at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit from 2001-2007. He was also appointed as the What Works National Advisor in July 2013, a position he held until 2022 through which he led efforts to improve the use of evidence across government. David was awarded Commander of the Order of the BritishEmpire in the New Year’s Honours in January 2022 for Public Service as What Works National Advisor. He is the author of Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference, which covers the story of the Behavioural Insights Team.