George Loewenstein is the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.  He received his PhD from Yale University in 1985 and since then has held academic positions at The University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, and fellowships at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, The Russell Sage Foundation, The Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, and the London School of Economics.  He is one of the founders of the fields of behavioral economics and neuroeconomics. His research focuses both on applications of psychology to economics and applications of economic-style thinking to psychology.  His specific interests include decision making over time, bargaining and negotiations, psychology and health, privacy, curiosity, boredom, information avoidance, privacy, adaptation, the role of emotion in decision making, conflicts of interest, and diverse aspects of public policy.