Stian is a professor of psychology at City St George's, University of London, where he is also Director of Digital Innovation for the School of Health Sciences. His research primarily focuses on financial behaviour, examining how people make decisions involving money. He also lectures on ethical decision making, creative leadership, and the psychology of sustainability.
He has extensive experience beyond academia: He regularly works with organizations to help better understand customer behaviour and enhance internal decision making; he has run a popular masterclass for The Guardian on making better financial decisions, and worked as scientific advisor on many BBC documentaries about brain science. He is also an expert contributor for the Fairness Foundation.
This is his first role as a charity trustee, although he has governance experience as a member of his university’s shadow leadership board. And while he is not a Quaker himself, Stian is from a Quaker family and shares their values of simplicity, equality, and truth.
When not working, Stian likes to get back to both nature and to his Norwegian heritage, spending time, with his wife and three children, in a remote cabin in a forest an hour or so out of Oslo.