Robert Hahn is a visiting professor and former director of economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University and a distinguished senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute. He is also a senior policy scholar at the Georgetown University Center for Business and Public Policy. Hahn has served on the faculties of Harvard and Carnegie Mellon, and has also had senior appointments at AEI and Brookings.
Hahn is co-founder of The Behaviouralist, a London and DC-based consultancy that uses experiments and advanced statistical methods to improve the efficiency of organizations in the private and the public sectors. Hahn is currently conducting several field experiments aimed at improving productivity, promoting growth and sustainability. He also continues to do research on government regulation and understanding the benefits of breakthrough innovations.
Hahn served on the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, many of the Commission’s findings were recently enacted into law as The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. In addition, he co-founded the Community Preparatory School, an urban middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, dedicated to serving inner-city youth.