Happiness Researchers Map
(Worldwide)
Information on Academic Lecturers and Researchers from Around the World
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Mark Anielski
is an economist and President and CEO of Anielski Management Inc. (AMI). He works with communities, businesses and governments to help them assess, measure and manage their quality of life and sustainability.
Dr. David G. Blanchflower
is a professor of economics at Dartmouth College and a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. He has posited a correlation between happiness and age and has quantified changes in happiness for people who are married or have sex frequently.
David Cameron
is the leader of England’s conservative party and founder of the Quality of Life Policy Group. He has urged politicians to concentrate more on improving people's happiness and "general well-being", instead of focusing solely on "financial wealth".
Dr. Andrew Clark
is a research professor at the Paris School of Economics. His research interests include the use of job and life satisfaction data to analyze labor market phenomena, modeling the utility function, social interactions, and social learning.
Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
is the director of the Quality of Life Research Center (QLRC). He is a member of the American Academy of Education, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Leisure Studies.
Dr. Ed Diener
is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois. He was the president of both the International Society of Quality of Life Studies and of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.
Dr. Paul Dolan
has held academic appointments at the Universities of York, Newcastle and Sheffield, where he became Professor of Economics in 2002 and Founder-Director of the Centre for Well-being in Public Policy in 2004. He was a visiting fellow at Princeton University in 2005 and joined Imperial College in 2006.
Dr. Michael Fordyce
for over 33 years was a professor of psychology, director of a private counseling clinic, and author of numerous professional articles on personal happiness. He is now retired and lives in Florida.
Dr. Bruno Frey
is the Head of the Chair of Economic Policy and Non-Market Economics at the University of Zurich. He is author of more than a dozen books and more than 350 articles in professional academic journals.
Dr. Daniel Gilbert
is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He is a social psychologist known for his research on affective forecasting and author of the international bestseller Stumbling on Happiness.
Dr. Daniel Goleman
is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. He is the author of the 1995 New York Times bestseller Emotional Intelligence.
Dr. Carol Graham
is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her research specialties include the study of developing economies and subjective well-being.
Dr. Daniel Kahneman
is Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in prospect theory.
Sir David King
is Chief Scientific Advisor to H. M. Government and Head of the Office of Science and Innovation. His major effort has been on climate change and energy research and development.
Dr. Morten L. Kringelbach
is the director of the TrygFonden Research Group. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and a Research Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, as well as Extraordinary JRF and College Lecturer in Neuroscience at The Queen's College, University of Oxford.
Dalai Lama
His Holiness’ first commitment is the promotion of human values. His Holiness’ second commitment is the promotion of religious harmony and understanding among the world’s major religious traditions. Thirdly, His Holiness is a Tibetan and carries the name of the ‘Dalai Lama’.
Lord Richard Layard
is director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. In recent years he has been actively involved in the new science of happiness, and in 2005 published Happiness: Lessons from a New Science.
Nic Marks
has been a nef associate since 2000. In 2006, Nic founded nef's centre for well-being. Nic was the co-author of the first edition of the UK Index of Sustainable Economics Welfare, which nef co-published in 1994.
Dr. Julie Newton
is a Research Officer at the University of Bath. She studies Wellbeing in Developing Countries with the ESRC Research Group (WeD).
Dr. Andrew Oswald
is a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. His research interests include applied economics and quantitative social science.
Robert Putnam
is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. He is also Visiting Professor and Director of the Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change, University of Manchester (UK).
Dr. Bill Rammell
is the Labor Member of Parliament for Harlow, England. In Parliament, his main interests include education and health, housing and regeneration, Europe and the economy, and sport.
Dr. Matthieu Ricard
was born in France in 1946. Since 1989 he has accompanied HH Dalai Lama to France, acting as his personal interpreter. He is a bestselling author and has translated and edited numerous books on Tibetan Buddhism.
Dr. Martin Seligman
is Director of the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center and founder of Positive Psychology, a new branch of psychology which focuses on the empirical study of such things as positive emotions, strengths-based character, and healthy institutions.
Dr. Timothy J. Sharp
is the director of Dr. Timothy J. Sharp & Associates - an independent practice of highly qualified clinical psychologists. The psychologists at Dr. Sharp & Associates are all highly trained and experienced in the delivery of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Dr. Mark Stibich
works with individual clients (either personally or through an employer package) to take action to increase wellness. He offers a range of services focusing on small group and/or teams, which include one-time and multi-session workshops designed to increase wellness while concentrating on a particular theme.
Dr. Alois Stutzer
is a professor at the Center for Economic Science at the University of Basel. He is the author of Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being, with Bruno S. Frey.
Dr. Sam Thompson
joined nef in April 2006 as a Researcher/Consultant for nef's centre for well-being. Sam has worked on a number of projects, notably nef's Happy Planet Index, an exploration of the relationships between sustainable development and well-being.
Dr. Ruut Veenhoven
is professor of 'social conditions for human happiness' at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Veenhoven's current research is on subjective quality of life. He is director of the World Database of Happiness and editor of the Journal of Happiness Studies.
Tom Wells
is director of the Sociometrics Research Support Group. Sociometrics Corporation is a for-profit research and development firm specializing in social science research applications.
Will Wilkinson
is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute. He works on a wide range of issues from the moral dimensions of Social Security reform to the policy implications of the psychology of happiness.
Dr. Walt Winkelman
is a happiness researcher based in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He is the Founder and Director of The Human Thriving Foundation and Happiness360.
Other Happiness Maps:
The Cato Institute's "Economic Freedom of the World" Map
Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to compete, and security of privately owned property.
Cato's Economic Freedom of the World Map reflects the findings of its 2007 annual report on economic freedom.
"A Global Projection of Subjective Well-Being," from the University of Leicester
In the map shown here international levels of SWB are presented in a global projection. The data on SWB was extracted from a meta-analysis by Marks, Abdallah, Simms & Thompson (2006). This is the first time a map of global happiness has been published.