As dean of PPLE College, Shaul Shalvi is responsible for the day-to-day management and academic direction of the study programme. This includes overseeing PPLE’s Teaching and Examination Regulations, monitoring their implementation, and contributing to the programme’s year plan and annual budget. Because PPLE is an interdisciplinary programme, an important part of the Dean’s role is to maintain strong connections between the different departments and faculties involved in PPLE: Economics and Business, Law, and Social and Behavioural Sciences.

Shaul is Professor of Behavioural Ethics at the University of Amsterdam. His research explores questions of fairness, equality, values and social norms, with recent work focusing on the psychological factors that shape people’s decisions when overseeing AI systems. His work connects psychology and economics in ways that speak directly to PPLE’s interdisciplinary mission. He earned his PhD in Psychology at the UvA in 2011, was a guest researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, and since 2015 is part of the Amsterdam School of Economics at the UvA. Outside UvA he serves as Associate Editor of Psychological Bulletin, board member of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM), and member of the Dutch Research Council’s (NWO) Social sciences and humanities roundtable providing strategic advice to the development of NWO policy.

Amsterdam has been both his academic and personal home for many years, where he lives with his family.