Michael Sanders BSc, MSc, PhD

Michael Sanders is Chief Scientist at the Behavioural Insights Team. Michael and his team support the rest of the behavioral insights team with the design of randomized controlled trials, which are widely considered to the ‘gold standard’ in working out what works.

Michael is also a member of BIT’s ventures team, working on Test & Build - BIT’s online platform to help to streamline the process of developing behavioral insights informed interventions in the areas of fraud, error, and debt. Michael is an associate fellow of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, where he teaches behavioral science, and a fellow of Harvard University’s Behavioural Insights Group.