Alex is Chief Scientist and Director of Research and Evaluation at the Behavioural Insights Team (AKA 'the nudge unit'). Before joining BIT, Alex was at RAND Europe for 5.5 years, and spent three years teaching research design/quantitative methods at the University of Cambridge. Prior to Cambridge, he worked at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and has a D.Phil. in sociology, also from Oxford. His interests cover evaluation of public policy, randomised trials, and research design.