George MacKerron

Role: Discussion Lead
Affiliation: Psychological Technologies

Biography:

PSYT co-founder and CTO Dr George MacKerron created the Mappiness study at LSE. Mappiness is the world’s largest experience sampling study, with 3.5m data points from 65,000 users, and has papers in the Economic Journal, Global Environmental Change and others.

George is also an academic economist at the University of Sussex and an expert in behavioural economics and subjective wellbeing. He has advised or been invited to speak by the Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, Social Impacts Task Force, OECD Better Life initiative and others.

PSYT are specialists in wellbeing apps for individuals, researchers and organisations.