Varun Gauri was an economist in the World Bank’s research department, where he founded and headed the World Bank’s behavioral science unit, eMBeD. He was co-director of the World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behavior. He has served on the editorial boards of the journals Behavioral Public Policy, BMJ Global Health, and Health and Human Rights, as well as on the World Economic Forum Council on Behavior, the WHO Technical Advisory Group for Behavioral Science, the OECD Expert Group on Behavioral Insights, the Board of the Behavioral Economics Action Research Centre at the University of Toronto, and the American Political Science Association Task Force on Democratic Imperatives. His research has appeared in journals such as PNAS, American Political Science Review, Journal of Political Philosophy, and World Bank Economic Review, and has been covered in The New York Times, The Economist, Le Monde,  The Hindu, The Guardian, and Frontline. His publications include Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World and The Community Paralegal Movement and the Pursuit of Justice, and School Choice in Chile. His current research addresses behavioral economics, human rights, and social policy in developing countries.