Visiting Scholars

Dr. Manuel Schubert is Managing Director and Co-Founder of Behavia. He is passionate about applying behavioral insights to maximize impact and initiate behavioral change. Manuel is a senior behavioral economist with 15 years of experience in management consulting, government advisory and applied research. He (co-)authored more than 40 articles addressing topics in behavioral economics, public policy, empirical methods and international relations. Besides his work at Behavia, Manuel is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Passau, Germany.

General Information:

I am a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I do research on financial accounting and corporate taxation. I am currently working on several projects which investigate how financial accounting outcomes and real firm decisions are shaped by tax policy and tax enforcement.

Johannes Jütting is Executive Head of the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21), a global data partnership that promotes the improved use and production of statistics throughout the developing world. He is a trained development economist with a PhD from Humboldt-University in Berlin with specific expertise in employment, social protection, health insurance and gender. Prior to joining PARIS21, Johannes headed up Poverty Reduction Teams at the OECD Development Center and at the Centre for Global Development Research (ZEF).

   Academic Background

• Post Doctoral Research, Risks in Offshore Outsourcing (2008). Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta (USA) with Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship
• PhD, Information Technology & Management (2005). Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Gwalior
• BTech, Applied Electronics and Instrumentation (1989). College of Engineering Trivandrum, University of Kerala