Maya Shankar

Maya Shankar
Senior Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
In office
April 2013 – January 19, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences Team
In office
September 2015 – January 19, 2017
First Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations
In office
January 2016 – October 2016
PresidentSecretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
Personal details
SpouseJimmy Li
EducationYale University (BA)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
Websitemayashankar.com

Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host and executive producer of the podcast, A Slight Change of Plans.