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Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work integrating insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision making under uncertainty.

Olivier Sibony is a professor, writer, and advisor specializing in the quality of strategic thinking and the design of decision processes. Sibony teaches Strategy, Decision Making, and Problem Solving at HEC Paris. He is also an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School in Oxford University. Previously, he was a Senior Partner with McKinsey & Company, where he spent 25 years.

Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. From 2009 to 2012 he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. From 2013 to 2014, he served on President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communication Technologies. From 2016 to 2017, he served on the Defense Innovation Board of the US Department of Defense. He is the author of the bestsellers NUDGE (with Richard H. Thaler) and THE WORLD ACCORDING TO STAR WARS. His two most recent books, IMPEACHMENT: A CITIZEN’S GUIDE and CAN IT HAPPEN HERE? Are reviewed together on the front page of THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (March 18, 2018). Sunstein is the recipient of the 2018 Holberg prize, awarded annually to a scholar who has made outstanding contributions to research in the arts, humanities, the social sciences, law or theology.

About Brockman, Inc.
Brockman, Inc., established in 1973 by founder John Brockman, is the preeminent international literary agency in the representation of serious non-fiction authors who are the leaders of “the third culture”, i.e., those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.

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