David Smerdon Email: d.c.smerdon@uva.nl

Background and interests After leaving the paradisiacal backwaters of tropical Australia in 2011, I completed the Tinbergen Institute graduate program and joined the CREED team in 2013. Before this, I completed undergraduate degrees in mathematics, psychology and commerce from the University of Melbourne, and worked as an economic policy analyst for the Australian Treasury.

I am currently pursuing my PhD in various topics within behavioural economics. In particular, I am interested in development economics, climate change and social constructs. My PhD is under the supervision of Theo Offerman and Uri Gneezy, who also jointly supervised my MPhil thesis on a theoretical and experimental investigation of the persistence of bad social norms.

Outside of the office, I occasionally masquerade as a part-time chess player.