Gerd Gigerenzer

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin, and partner of Simply Rational - The Institute for Decisions, which he founded in 2015. He is former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and John M. Olin Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Law at the University of Virginia. In addition, he is Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences and Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Basel and the Open University of the Netherlands, and is Batten Fellow at the Darden Business School, University of Virginia.