Dr. Stephen Whyte
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Economics & Finance, Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Deputy Director, Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology (BEST), QUT Dr Whyte is a Behavioural Economist who’s research focus explores large scale decision making. His work takes a multi-disciplinary approach in studying key sex differences in human behaviour in cyber settings, with work that bridges the fields of applied micro-economics, personality & social psychology, and evolutionary biology. His research has been published in such journals as Psychological Science, Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, British Journal of Surgery, and the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open. Working in the BEST Centre, Dr Whyte has experience working on behavioural research with a diverse range of industry and policy partners including Queensland Fertility Group, Queensland Department of Transport, Sumitomo Forestry, YWCA, the Australian Taxation Office, the Australasian Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and QLD Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Charity Group FOG's. His research has been featured in the media in The Australian, The Boston Globe, Australian Financial Review, Fox News, The Huffington Post, Marie Claire, News.com, The New York Post, Sydney Morning Herald, and Vanity Fair, but to name a few. |
Isabelle Brocas
Isabelle is an economics professor at the University of Southern California and the co-director of the Los Angeles Behavioral Economics Laboratory (LABEL) and the Theoretical Research in Neuroeconomic Decision-making (TREND) Institute. Her research revisits standard theories of decision-making and aims at better understanding how people make choices, what motivates them and what cognitive limitations prevent them from making rational choices. She is also a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London and a member of the Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP), USC.
Rachel O'Bryan
Co-founder and Strategic Projects Director- One Chance to grow up
Rachel, an attorney, has been involved in Colorado’s historic recreational marijuana legislative and regulatory process since 2013. She was appointed by the governor to serve on a subcommittee of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force, providing a voice of citizens. She has also served on several state Marijuana Enforcement Division regulatory committees. She has a B.A. from Brown University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Rachel, an attorney, has been involved in Colorado’s historic recreational marijuana legislative and regulatory process since 2013. She was appointed by the governor to serve on a subcommittee of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force, providing a voice of citizens. She has also served on several state Marijuana Enforcement Division regulatory committees. She has a B.A. from Brown University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.