
Full Name
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
Job Title
Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science and Director of the Wellbeing Research Centre
Company
Oxford University
Speaker Bio
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve is the director of the Wellbeing Research Centre and professor of economics and behavioural science at the Saïd Business School at Oxford.
His research has been published in academic outlets such as Science, Nature, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, The Journal of Political Economy, Psychological Science, The British Medical Journal, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The underlying theme throughout his research is the study of human wellbeing. This ongoing research agenda has led to new insights into the relationship between happiness and income, productivity, firm performance and economic growth. His research was selected among ‘The Management Ideas That Mattered Most’ by the Harvard Business Review and he was awarded the inaugural Ruut Veenhoven Award for his contributions to the scientific study of happiness.
Jan is an editor of the World Happiness Report and the co-founder of the World Wellbeing Movement, a coalition of exemplary corporations that help put wellbeing metrics at the heart of business and public policy.
His research has been published in academic outlets such as Science, Nature, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, The Journal of Political Economy, Psychological Science, The British Medical Journal, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The underlying theme throughout his research is the study of human wellbeing. This ongoing research agenda has led to new insights into the relationship between happiness and income, productivity, firm performance and economic growth. His research was selected among ‘The Management Ideas That Mattered Most’ by the Harvard Business Review and he was awarded the inaugural Ruut Veenhoven Award for his contributions to the scientific study of happiness.
Jan is an editor of the World Happiness Report and the co-founder of the World Wellbeing Movement, a coalition of exemplary corporations that help put wellbeing metrics at the heart of business and public policy.