Shankar is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music’s pre-college division and is a former private violin student of Itzhak Perlman. Maya Shankar’s title was originally reported as Deputy Director at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, but her title is actually Senior Advisor for the Social and Behavioral Sciences White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. She has been profiled by The New Yorker and has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Forbes, and on NPR’s All Things Considered, Freakonomics, and Hidden Brain.
On September 15, 2015, President Obama signed Executive Order 13707 to. team of White House scientists works through the final days of the Obama. Shiller and Maya Shankar, Senior White House Advisor. Maya Shankar blends compassionate storytelling with the science of human behavior to help us understand who we are and who we become in the face of a big change. Shankar completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at Stanford, after receiving a PhD from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and a BA from Yale in cognitive science. She discusses her pivot from Juilliard violinist into neuroscience after suffering a permanent hand injury as a teenager, and how she created her own role in the White House. Maya Shankar, a cognitive scientist, hoped that she and her colleagues could. In 2016, Shankar served as the first behavioral science advisor to the United Nations under Ban Ki-moon. The programme is to be led by Maya Shankar, who has visited London to see the work of the UK Behavioural Insights Team. By Sarah Stillman Published in the print edition of the Januissue. Today, Shankar is Senior Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Barack Obama to bring Whitehall's 'nudge' theory to the White House. Previously she served as a senior advisor in the Obama White House, where she founded and served as chair of the White House’s Behavioral Science Team - a team of scientists charged with improving public policy using research insights about human behavior. An unusual team of White House scientists works through the final days of the Obama Administration. MAYA SHANKAR is currently Google’s global director of behavioral economics.
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