Andrew Oswald

Andrew J. Oswald is a Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Warwick. He holds an honorary Senior Research Fellow position at the Wellbeing Research Centre, Manchester Harris College, University of Oxford, and chairs the IZA Network Advisory Panel at the IZA Institute in Bonn. His research focuses on applied economics and quantitative social science, emphasizing job satisfaction, human happiness, mental health, and labor productivity. He has served on the editorial board of Science and held visiting roles at institutions including Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Yale.

Key career highlights include being an ISI Highly-Cited Researcher and recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel. His work spans climate policy, midlife well-being trends, and the psychological impacts of economic conditions. Oswald advocates for evidence-based policy and critiques overreliance on journal impact factors in academic evaluation.

Notable contributions include pioneering studies on the 'U-shaped' happiness curve across lifespans, links between fruit/vegetable consumption and mental health, and analyses of societal unhappiness's democratic implications. He collaborates extensively with researchers globally, with recent focus on pandemic-era behavioral economics and policy design.