Eric Johnson is the inaugural holder of the Norman Eig Chair of Business, and Director of the Center for

Decision Sciences, Columbia Business School at Columbia University. His research examines the

interface between Behavioral Decision Research, Economics and the decisions made by consumers,

managers, and their implications for public policy, markets and marketing.

He has been on the faculty of Carnegie-Mellon, the University of Pennsylvania, and was a post-doctoral

fellow at Stanford. Honors include the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for

Consumer Psychology, being named a Fellow by the Association for Consumer Research and the

Association for Psychological Science, and an honorary doctorate in Economics from the University of St.

Gallen. His work is highly cited in Psychology, Business and Economics. He has also been president of the

Society for Neuroeconomics and the Society for Judgement and Decision-Making, ad was a visiting

scholar at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 2014-2017.

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