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Lata Gangadharan is a Professor and the Joe Isaac Chair of Business Economics at Monash University. She is an experimental behavioral economist with a key focus on developing novel experimental methods to study economic and social institutions. Her recent research examines incentives and preferences, addressing topics such as peer sanctioning to mitigate the effects of social and environmental dilemmas, as well as the propensity for prosocial and antisocial behavior. She also explores incentives for compliance in auditing and issues related to gender and social identity. Gangadharan's work has been published in prestigious journals including Science, Nature Communications, PNAS, the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, and the European Economic Review. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and serves as the President-Elect of the Economic Science Association. Additionally, she is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and has held editorial positions in several other journals. Her expertise aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on economic experiments and social preferences. She is actively involved in various research projects aimed at understanding and improving socioeconomic conditions.
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