Sanchayan Banerjee is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics and Public Policy at the Policy Institute in King’s College London. He is a visiting fellow of the London School of Economics and an affiliate of Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and the Institute for Environmental Studies in Amsterdam.

His research focusses on developing citizen-oriented, participatory behavioural public policies and testing their effectiveness and legitimacy using experiments (field, lab and online) in areas of food policy, energy policy, public health, and charitable donations. Sanchayan has co-developed the NUDGE+ toolkit with Peter John.

Sanchayan is a seasoned university teacher with more than 8 years of teaching experience. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and holds a University Teaching Qualification (BKO) in the Netherlands. He is also an accredited external examiner in the UK. He has won three LSE Teaching Awards consecutively and two teaching innivation grants at VU Amsterdam.

Sanchayan holds a PhD (2022) and MSc (2018) from the London School of Economics. Previously, Sanchayan was a (tenured) Assistant Professor of Environmental and Behavioural Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2022-2024).

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