Maya Shankar
Maya Shankar is Global Director of Behavioral Science at Google since March 2017.
Shankar is a former violinist, founded The White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team in 2015. She served as an advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy while on a fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Shankar also served as a United Nations Senior Adviser on Behavioural Insights. She served as a visiting research scholar at Princeton's Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy in the fall of 2016.
Maya Shankar is the daughter of Ramamurti Shankar, Indian physicist and Yale University Professor.Education
Maya earned her B.A. from Yale University in Cognitive science and went on to earn her Ph.D from the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 2013 Maya went on to complete her post-doctoral fellowship in Cognitive neuroscience at Stanford University. She is a former graduate of the Juilliard School of Music pre-college division and a private violin student of Itzhak Perlman.
When Shankar was 17, she tore a tendon in her left hand, bringing her musical career to an end.
