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My mentor, colleague, and very good friend - Andrew Oswald - is an extremely well-known figure in Europe and the US for his work on the Economics of Happiness, and an all-round nice guy. A badminton fanatic, Andrew always enjoys a glass or two of red wine at conferences, which he insists 'keeps him jolly happy!"
A remarkable pioneer, Richard Easterlin was one of the first economists to take a serious look at the 'Happiness Data' for America. He found that income growth for all does not necessarily lead to greater happiness for all. The phenomenon was later termed as the 'Easterlin Paradox'. An extremely nice and energetic professor of Economics who, at the age of 80, must be at that very top of the U-shaped Happiness and Age relationship
Probably one of the coolest-looking professors around, Bruno Frey is very well-known throughout Europe as one of the most sort after experts on the economics of happiness. Although I have never had the pleasure of meeting Bruno, I hear he is very approachable and, like others, is extremely keen to make a better understanding of the science of happiness for the general public
A Harvard economist, Rafael Di Tella could have easily fooled you from the way he talks about football that he is the team manager of the Argentinian football team. Known for his work with Robert MacCulloch on Political Economy and Happiness, could you believe that he used to be in a fencing team for his home country?
Another half of the Di Tella-MacCulloch collaboration, Robert is a quiet and soft spoken guy but an extremely nice guy at that. Another one of Andrew Oswald's inner-circle group, he held posts at London School of Economics, Princeton, and now is an acting Professor at the Imperial College, London
Probably one of the funniest guys I've ever met, Andrew Clark has one of the personalities that can liven up any conference rooms he goes to. Known for his work on subjetive well-being and labour market phenomenons, he is currently residing in France and teaches at PSE. He, like me, supports a lower-division football team (he supports the Leyton Orient, and I support Gillingham) - so we both know how it feels not to get a win on nearly every saturdays
One of the youngests albeit already well-established happiness economists in the world, Alois Stutzer has a publishing record that looks better than Alan Shearer's goal scoring record in his entire life (AS scores nearly 0.5 goals in every game he plays, whereas this AS publishes one or two papers in peer reviewed journals every year). A soft-spoken but quick witted and always smiling character, Alois is known for his collaborative work with Bruno Frey. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland
In the field that is dominated by male economists, Carol Graham is a learding researcher on well-being in her own right. A Brooking Scholar and now a Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, we first met at Warwick when she came to give a talk there as a guest of Andrew (I was still a 1st year PhD student). She's been extremely helpful ever since, and I still could not thank her enough for all her useful comments and advices
Probably the hippiest of all happiness research economists, Paul Dolan can easily be mistaken as a member of any Rock musical group ever formed. An expert on health economics, he is fun to have a round as, together with Rafael Di Tella, they make a great comedy duo. A passionate West Ham supporter, he is now a Professor of Economics at the Imperial College, London