Ganga is an Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science in LSE’s Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science and an Affiliate of the Department of Geography and Environment.

Background

Ganga is an applied behavioural and experimental economist studying how to change human behaviour in ways that simultaneously benefit people and the planet. Her research looks at how individual and contextual factors motivate environmentally relevant choices across different types of consumer and citizen domains (e.g. travel, diet and altruistic actions like giving time and money) and how they can be deployed in interventions – like behaviourally ‘smart’ informational campaigns, nudges and incentives – to ultimately create sustainable habits. She is interested in how, when and why people come together to collectively act on (or fail to) complex and ‘wicked’ global environmental social dilemmas like climate change and the sixth mass extinction.

Ganga completed a PhD in Environmental Economics and a Master’s in Public Administration at the LSE and her Masters in Development Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Prior to academia, she worked with policy-makers and researchers in India, Nepal, China and Tajikistan on agricultural development and food security policy with the International Food Policy Research Institute.

Research Interests

• Pro-social and altruistic consumer and citizen behaviours;
• environmentally relevant and health behaviours;
• Sustainability; Nature & wildlife conservation;
• Lab and field experiments.