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professor of marketing at ESSEC Business School in France. She holds a master’s degree in applied economics and a PhD in decision sciences (under the supervision of Howard Kunreuther), both from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her academic research focuses on risky decision making over time, covering a variety of applications from risk mitigation investments to consumer behavior. Her work has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty , the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Management Science, and Social Psychology Quarterly and has been reviewed in media outlets such as the Financial Times and CFO Europe. Recently she has been working on ambiguity and probability transformation in intertemporal choice.

Olivier Oullier, Aix-Marseille University

Olivier Oullier is an associate professor of neuroscience at Aix-Marseille University (France) and a research associate at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences (Florida Atlantic University). His work focuses on multi-level social coordination dynamics, embodied cognition, and neuroeconomics. A member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Decision-Making and Incentive, he is scientific advisor to the French prime minister’s Center for Strategic Analysis in charge of the “Neuroscience and Public Policy” program—the world’s first institutional initiative to specifically evaluate and implement the applications of newfound knowledge on brain sciences to health prevention, risk management, education, and justice. Founder of the first graduate course on neuroeconomics and neuroethics in France, Professor Oullier serves as an expert on these topics for various public and private institutions including the French Parliament and the European Commission. His book The State of Mind in Economics: Neuroeconomics and Beyond (with Alan Kirman and Scott Kelso) is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Mark V. Pauly, The Wharton School

Mark Pauly is the Bendheim Professor in the Department of Health Care Systems at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Virginia and is a former commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission, an active member of the Institute of Medicine, and one of the nation’s leading health economists. His classic study on the economics of moral hazard was the first to point out how health insurance coverage may affect patients’ use of medical services. Professor Pauly’s interest in health policy has led him to investigate ways to reduce the number of uninsured people through tax credits for public and private insurance and to create an appropriate design for Medicare in a budget-constrained environment. He has served on Institute of Medicine panels on public accountability for health insurers under Medicare and on improving the financing of vaccines and was recently also a member of the Medicare Technical Advisory Panel. Currently he is a co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics and an associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.

John W. Pratt, Harvard University

John Pratt is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration (Emeritus) at Harvard Business School. He received his education at Princeton and Stanford, specializing in mathematics and statistics, and was the editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association from 1965 to 1970. He has also chaired National Academy of Sciences committees on environmental monitoring, census methodology, and the future of statistics. Professor Pratt is a fellow of five professional societies and has co-authored or edited books on statistical decision theory, statistical and mathematical aspects of pollution problems, social experimentation, nonparametric statistics, and principals and agents. His other research interests have included statistical inference, approximation of probability distributions, utility theory, risk aversion, risk sharing, incentives, statistical causality,