Cass Sunstein
Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School
Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School.
In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as chair of its Technical Advisory Group on Behavioral Insights and Sciences for Health.
From 2009 to 2012, he was administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the president’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects and advised officials at the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank, and many countries on issues of law and public policy. He serves as an adviser to the Behavioural Insights Team in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Sunstein is the author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Simpler: The Future of Government, The Ethics of Influence, #Republic, Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide, The Cost-Benefit Revolution, On Freedom, Conformity, How Change Happens, and Too Much Information. He is working on a variety of projects involving the regulatory state, “sludge” (defined to include paperwork and similar burdens), fake news, and freedom of speech.
