Sanchayan Banerjee is an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in the Department of Environmental Economics at the Institute of Environmental Studies (IVM) in Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He holds a secondary affiliation to the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute. He is a visiting research fellow of the London School of Economics and King’s College London, and holds a fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom.  He is an Associate Editor of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature) and an incoming Associate Editor of Behavioural Public Policy (New Voices). Sanchayan sits on the Steering Committee of the International Behavioural Public Policy Association. He is the founding convenor and chair of Behavioural Transformations, an annual workshop in behavioural science and public policy.

Sanchayan has co-developed Nudge+, which he uses to engage citizens in welfare-improving pro-social and pro-environmental behaviours, such as climate-friendly diets, lower food waste, decarbonising energy demand, improved vaccine uptake, and donations to charities. His research has been published or is forthcoming in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Sustainability, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Behavioural Public Policy. He teaches in areas of environmental, behavioural, and experimental economics and public policy. He is the founding convenor of two courses at VU Summer and Winter School: Statistical Methods of Causal Inference and Behavioural Public Policy. 

Sanchayan regularly interacts with different stakeholders to help them improve their practices, notably Scotland Zero Waste, Fife Council, Live Nation Entertainment, Festival Republic, and the Danish Energy Agency. He currently leads the NWO project ALIGN4energy (5.7mn Euros). His research has attracted more than half-a-million Euros in research grants and funding.

Sanchayan is open to supervising PhD students in areas of environmental and behavioural economics (broadly defined). If you are prospective student, please get in touch.

Expertise

Behavioural Economics, Environmental Economics, Behavioural Public Policy, Experimental Economics, Economics of Climate Change, Nudge.

Education

2022    PhD, Environmental Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

2021: Post graduate certificate in Higher Education, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

2018: MSc, Environmental Economics and Climate Change, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

2017: BA, Economics, Jadavpur University, India.

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Associate Editor, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Associate Editor, Behavioural Public Policy (New Voices)

Steering Group, International Behavioural Public Policy Association

Quality Board, VU Summer and Winter School