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.