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Sanchayan Banerjee is an Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy at the School for Government in The Policy Institute in King's College London. Currently, he is also a Visiting Professor at the Grenoble-IAE (Graduate School of Management), Université Grenoble Alpes. He acts as the Academic Lead for Professional Education for the Policy Institute in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Policy. He is a visiting fellow of the London School of Economics, and an affiliate of the Institute for Environmental Studies and Amsterdam Sustainability Institute at VU Amsterdam. His research focusses on developing citizen-oriented, participatory, behavioural public policies and testing their effectiveness and legitimacy using experiments (lab, online and field). He developed the NUDGE+ framework with Peter John. He co-leads the NWO ALIGN4energy (5.7 mn Euros) research project in the Netherlands. He sits on the editorial board of Nature Scientific Reports, PLOS One, and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. He was a co-editor of the New Voices section in Behavioural Public Policy. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor (tenured) of Behavioural and Environmental Economics at VU Amsterdam (2022-2024). He holds a PhD (2022) and MSc (2018) from the London School of Economics.