BA Berkeley, MBA Berkeley, PhD Duke

Professor Slonim came to Sydney in 2008 from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio. He holds a PhD from Duke University and MBA and BA degrees from the University of California Berkeley. Professor Slonim is best recognised as a pioneer in the area of experimental economics and has written extensively on learning, trust and the economics of charitable behaviour and blood donations. Professor Slonim has been very innovative in his use of experimental methods that have theoretical importance and have also represented important findings for matters of public policy.

Professor Slonim has organised several conferences in Behavioural and Experimental Economics, given several keynote addresses and has presented around the world in excess of one-hundred times on topics such as game theory, designing incentives, trust, learning, the economics of education, blood donor motivation and altruism and charitable behaviour. Professor Slonim is Co-Editor of the Journal of the Economic Science Association, an Advisory Editor for the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, and has been a panellist for the National Science Foundation. He has published widely in numerous leading academic journals in economics and beyond, including Science and Econometrica and has been an ad hoc Reviewer for many well respected journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica and the Journal of Political Economy. Professor Slonim has received many prestigious grants including two from the US National Science Foundation and two Discovery Project grants from the Australian Research Council for his research on understanding and motivating blood donations. He is also a research fellow with IZA, the Institute for the Study of Labor Economics.