Dr. Kai Ruggeri is a Professor of behavioral science and analytics in the Department of Health Policy & Management. Kai joined Columbia from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, where he directed the Policy Research Group that he founded in 2013. He studies fundamental questions of human behavior and decision-making, and how integrating behavioral evidence into policies can improve economic outcomes and population well-being. His teaching is primarily in analytics and decision-making as well as in behavioral and managerial economics. His current projects involve a number of behavioral policy studies focusing on large-scale data related to economic choices, health behaviors, and related outcomes. Partners include local and national governments, non-profit organizations, industry, and other academic institutions, in New York, various parts of the US, and abroad. He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Business Research at the Judge Business School and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Kai founded and directed the Junior Researcher Programme (JRP) and its partner initiative at Columbia, Global Behavioral Science (GLOBES), in 2011 to create opportunities for early career researchers from around the world. He is also an officer in the US Air Force (New York Air National Guard).