About the Speaker:

Wakker works in behavioral economics and on risk and ambiguity. He has published in leading journals in Economics, Business, Medicine, Psychology, Statistics, and Mathematics. His publications appear in Econometrica (ECA), American Economic Review (AER), Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE), Review of Economic Studies (RES), International Economic Review (IER), Management Science (MS), Operations Research (OR), Journal of Economic Theory (JET), Psychological Review, The Annals of Statistics, among nearly 200 journal papers, received more than 27000 citations with h-index of 81.

Wakker is a Fellow of the Econometric Society (2003). He was a Department Editor of Management Science (INFORMS), and the editor of another four reputable journals. He was the best-publishing Dutch economist in the years 1994, 1998, 2003, and 2007, collaborated with three Nobel-Prize Winners, and ranked 90th in the world in the ISI's most cited scientists in economics and business in 2003. He received a Medical Decision Making Career Achievement Award (2007), the Frank P. Ramsey Medal (2013; the highest award of INFORMS Decision Analysis Society), and an Honorary doctorate in economics (University of St. Gallen 2016). He is on Stanford University list of World's Top 2% Scientists 2021 (both career and year).