What followed in the days after her musical career ended was an incredible sense of loss. It's a calling she couldn't have anticipated at Juilliard, where she dreamed of being a concert violinist. Maya Shankar is a Behavioral Scientist and former Senior Advisor in the Obama White House. Deputy General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor for Oceans and the Environment. MAYA SHANKAR is currently Google’s global director of behavioral economics. Her work in government was far-reaching - helping students get to college, workers save more for retirement and millions of children get access to school lunch. Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant Director. She served in the Obama administration as a senior adviser at the White House, working to create better policy using insights from behavioral science. Maya knows bestThe White House’s new nudge czar, 27-year-old Maya Shankar (above), has a thin résumé and a strong belief that she, like former Obama appointee Cass Sunstein (right), knows what. Today, Maya has reached a new pinnacle in an entirely different field. She tore a tendon in her hand, bringing her musical career to an untimely end. But not long after, she injured her finger while playing a difficult section of Paganini's Caprice no. The programme is to be led by Maya Shankar, who has visited London to see the work of the UK Behavioural Insights Team. At the age of 14, and she was accepted to his prestigious summer program on Shelter Island. Barack Obama to bring Whitehall's 'nudge' theory to the White House. Itzhak Perlman had taken her on as his private student at the Juilliard School. Guest Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans, where she weaves people’s personal stories of change with the science of human behavior. Maya is a cognitive scientist, former Obama White House senior advisor. As a young girl, Maya Shankar was well on her way to a promising career as a classical violinist. For episode 1 of our No Books Required series, were joined by Dr.
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